PRISM: mounting a community-randomised trial. Establishing partnerships with local government

Rhonda Small1, Stephanie Brown, Wendy Dawson

  • 1Mother and Child Health Research, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria. r.small@latrobe.edu.au

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