Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 10 , Pages 686-688 , October 2009

Seasonal variation in self-reported health and health-related behaviour in Dutch adolescents

  • P.M. van de Looij-Jansen

      Affiliations

    • Municipal Public Health Service for Rotterdam Area, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    • Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Youth Department, Municipal Public Health Service for Rotterdam Area, P.O. Box 70032, 3000 LP, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Tel.: +31 10 433 9638; fax: +31 10 433 8989.
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  • E.J. de Wilde

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Youth Institute, Utrecht the Netherlands
    • ,
  • C.L. Mieloo

      Affiliations

    • Municipal Public Health Service for Rotterdam Area, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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  • M.C.H. Donker

      Affiliations

    • Municipal Public Health Service for Rotterdam Area, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    • Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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  • F.C. Verhulst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-Sophia, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Received 23 July 2008 ,Revised 30 May 2009 ,Accepted 30 July 2009.

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00208-X

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.07.015

Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 10 , Pages 686-688 , October 2009

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