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Status report - Geographic retail food environment measures for use in public health

Ahalya Mahendra1, Jane Y Polsky2, Éric Robitaille3

  • 1Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice
|October 19, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
built environmentfood environmentfood retailmeasurementurban environments

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