Health Promot Perspect. 2020;10(4): 316-324. doi: 10.34172/hpp.2020.50

PMID: 33312927 PMCID: PMC7723000

Review

School as ideal setting to promote health and wellbeing among young people

Manuela Pulimeno ^1,2 , Prisco Piscitelli ^1,3 * , Salvatore Colazzo ^1,4, Annamaria Colao ^1,5, Alessandro Miani ^6,7

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