WellnessRx Education Initiative: Development and Pilot Study of Nutrition and Physical Activity Education for Health Sciences Students

Pedagogy in Health Promotion

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-36

  Bistritz, Lana ^a   Kovacs Burns, Katharina ^a   Avdagovska, Melita ^a   McCargar, Linda ^a   Olson, Karin ^a   Gramlich, Leah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

curriculum design; interprofessional collaboration; nutrition; physical activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995727436     PISSN: 23733799     EISSN: 23733802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2373379914559217     Document Type: Article

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