Weight control, private health insurance and public policies

Obesity, Business and Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 106-132

  Lyles, Alan ^a   Cotten, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

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