Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 6 , Pages 449-454 , June 2007

Multidisciplinary public health: Leading from the front?

  • Geof Rayner

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.02.008

Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 6 , Pages 449-454 , June 2007