Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 10 , Pages 1038-1041 , October 2008

Challenges and opportunities for surveillance data to inform public health policy on chronic non-communicable diseases: Canadian perspectives

  • S. Stachenko

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PII: S0033-3506(08)00139-X

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.05.006

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 10 , Pages 1038-1041 , October 2008