The physician's role in health promotion revisited--a survey of primary care practitioners.

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Published in N Engl J Med on April 11, 1996

Authors

H Wechsler1, S Levine, R K Idelson, E L Schor, E Coakley

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115, USA.

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