Schools as social complex adaptive systems: A new way to understand the challenges of introducing the health promoting schools concept

Keshavarz, Nastaran, Nutbeam, Don, Rowling, Louise, Khavarpour, Freidoon·2010·Social Science & Medicine
DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.034

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