Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity

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Sarah Catherine Walpole et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2009 Oct.

. 2009 Oct;87(10):799-801.

doi: 10.2471/blt.09.067116.

¹ Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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