Volunteering in nature as a way of enabling people to reintegrate into society

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Perspectives in Public Health

• Publication date

  2011-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/1757913910384048PMID 21462750
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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