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A Critical Realist Translational Social Epidemiology Protocol for Concretising and Contextualising a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”, Sydney Australia Cover

A Critical Realist Translational Social Epidemiology Protocol for Concretising and Contextualising a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”, Sydney Australia

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.3962 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 1, 2018
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Accepted on: May 21, 2019
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Published on: Jul 26, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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