The health relevance of the immediate housing environment

Housing and Health in Europe: The WHO LARES Project

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 247-274

  Braubach, Matthias ^a  

^a WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

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EID: 84919503246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203885239     Document Type: Chapter

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