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EDITORIAL

Rethinking how we see and respond to fatness

Jessica Young
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Correspondence to: Jessica Young, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Te Tari Hauora o te Marea me te Hauora o te Huka Ahuwhenua, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. Email: jessica.young@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 8(4) 281-282 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv8n4_ED2
Published: 21 December 2016

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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