Back-to-School Health Promotion

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 402-405

  Terre, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disease prevention; lifestyle risk reduction; school based health promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992804390     PISSN: 15598276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1559827608320287     Document Type: Review

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