Public health policy and walking in England-analysis of the 2008 'policy window'.

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Published in BMC Public Health on July 05, 2015

Authors

Karen Milton1, Jonathan Grix2

Author Affiliations

1: British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK. karen.milton@dph.ox.ac.uk.
2: School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. j.grix@bham.ac.uk.

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