Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies

Palgrave Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Brick, Cameron ^a   Freeman, Alexandra L J ^a   Wooding, Steven ^a   Skylark, William J ^a   Marteau, Theresa M ^a   Spiegelhalter, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85054558261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0121-9     Document Type: Article

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