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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 22, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(5):410; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm058
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Implausible diseases and public health

Fred Paccaud*

* Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Correspondence: Fred Paccaud, Institute of Social and Preventive medicine, Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. email: fred.paccaud@chuv.ch

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