Community interventions and initiatives to prevent obesity

Obesity Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Summerbell, Carolyn ^a   Hillier, Frances ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Available evidence; Community based intervention; Obesity control; Obesity prevention; Public health interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199571512.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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