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Developing national obesity policy in middle-income countries: a case study from North Africa

Background The prevalence of overweight and obesity is a rapidly growing threat to public health in both Morocco and Tunisia, where it is reaching similar proportions to high-income countries. Despite this, a national strategy for obesity does not exist in either country. The aim of this study was t...

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Autores principales:	Holdsworth, Michelle, El Ati, Jalila, Bour, Abdellatif, Kameli, Yves, Derouiche, Abdelfettah, Millstone, Erik, Delpeuch, Francis
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Oxford University Press 2013
Materias:	Original Articles
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czs125

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