Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on July 01, 2003

Authors

M Petticrew1, H Roberts

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK. mark@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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