The corporatization of health education curricula: “Part of the Solution” to childhood obesity?

Health Education: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 142-156

  Powell, Darren ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84912531322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203387993     Document Type: Chapter

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