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24 - Implementation of an Early Childhood Prevention Program from a Health Care to Community-Based Setting in Singapore

Lessons from “Mission: I’m Possible”

from Asia & Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2017

By
Wan Har Chong ,
Hui Nee Tang ,
Patricia A. L. Koh  and
Sylvia H. T. Choo
Edited by
Moshe Israelashvili  and
John L. Romano
Moshe Israelashvili
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
John L. Romano
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science , pp. 574 - 596
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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