The salutogenic framework for well-being: Implications for public policy

Well-Being and Beyond: Broadening the Public and Policy Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 68-97

  Eriksson, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

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EID: 84958633588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781783472901.00010     Document Type: Chapter

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