Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 7 , Pages 681-690 , July 2008

Disparities in the food environment surrounding US middle and high schools

  • Roland Sturm

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Received 25 May 2007 ,Revised 7 July 2007 ,Accepted 6 September 2007.

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PII: S0033-3506(07)00298-3

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.09.004

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 7 , Pages 681-690 , July 2008

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