HEALTH PROMOTION IN A PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SETTING: Neural Tube Defects and Folate
Primary care practitioners are ideally situated to carry out health promotion activities. Neural tube defects are of a fairly low incidence, but the consequences are tragic. They range from life long physical and often intellectual disabilities, to death at birth. Increased folate intake, either thr...
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BioMed Central
1997
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2050631/ |