Creating healthier food environments to combat noncommunicable disease in the Caribbean
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Creating healthier societies.
When governments think about health, attention is usually on the cost of health care as that is where the money goes. The causes of ill-health tend to take second place. To the extent that causes intrude on policy-makers, a convenient, but loose, dichotomy presents itself: in the poorer countries of the world the burden of ill-health is the result of infectious disease linked to poor environmen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1020-4989,1680-5348
DOI: 10.26633/rpsp.2018.110