Realist Review to Understand the Efficacy of School Feeding Programmes

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2007 Oct 24

PMID 17954518

Citations 60

Authors

Trisha Greenhalgh

Elizabeth Kristjansson

Vivian Robinson

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