Indicators for healthy cities: Tools for evidence-based urban policy formation

Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 76-103

  Nakamura, Keiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84906204662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203402009     Document Type: Chapter

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