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Personal Health Behaviors are Associated with Physical and Mental Unhealthy Days: A Prescription for Health (P4H) Practice-based Research Networks Study

Desireé B. Froshaug, L. Miriam Dickinson, Douglas H. Fernald and Larry A. Green
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2009, 22 (4) 368-374; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2009.04.080150
Desireé B. Froshaug
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