Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 767-770 , August 2008

Creating Europe-wide health policies: A case study

  • F. Adshead

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health, London, UK
  • ,
  • A. Thorpe

      Affiliations

    • National Social Marketing Centre, London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

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 This paper is a revised version of the paper presented at the Public Health session at the American Public Health Association conference in Washington, D.C, May 2007.

PII: S0033-3506(08)00085-1

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.013

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 767-770 , August 2008