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Editorial
. 2021 Sep 21:66:1604390.
doi: 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604390. eCollection 2021.

To Improve Nutrition and Healthy Eating, We Need to Generate Demand

Rowena K Merritt  1 , Puja Tshering  2 , L Suzanne Suggs  3
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Editorial

To Improve Nutrition and Healthy Eating, We Need to Generate Demand

Rowena K Merritt et al. Int J Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: capacity building; demand creation; nutrition; obesity; social marketing.

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Conflict of interest statement

RM was a consultant for the NGO Sight and Life. PT was employed by the NGO Sight and Life. LSS is chair of the steering committee for the SSPH+ Public Health Summer School in Lugano.

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