Inequalities in food and nutrition: Challenging ‘lifestyles’

Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 127-155

  Dowler, Elizabeth ^a   Caraher, Martin ^b   Lincoln, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c National Heart Forum   (United Kingdom)

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