Is migration to Canada associated with unhealthy weight gain? Overweight and obesity among Canada's immigrants
- 31 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 61 (12) , 2469-2481
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.05.004
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