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Alfgeir Logi Kristjánsson1, Inga Dóra Sigfúsdóttir, John P Allegrante

  • 1Reykjavik University, Centre for Social Research and Analysis, School of Health and Education, Reykjavik, Iceland. alfgeir@ru.is

American Journal of Health Behavior
|October 11, 2008
PubMed
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