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An evaluation of Eating Pattern and Nutritional Status of Police Personnel in the Tamale Metropolis in Ghana

Gifty Selorm Bansah 1,*
1
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University for Development Studies. Tamale, Ghana
Publihed in: Current Research in Public Health (Volume 1, Issue 1, 2022)
Page(s): 27-39
DOI: 10.31586/ojfn.2022.517
Received
March 26, 2022
Revised
June 29, 2022
Accepted
July 14, 2022
Published
November 08, 2022
Keywords
Evaluation; Eating Pattern; Nutritional Status; Police; Tamale
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Bansah, G. S. (2022). An evaluation of Eating Pattern and Nutritional Status of Police Personnel in the Tamale Metropolis in Ghana. Current Research in Public Health, 1(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojfn.2022.517
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Bansah, G. S. An evaluation of Eating Pattern and Nutritional Status of Police Personnel in the Tamale Metropolis in Ghana. Current Research in Public Health 2022 1(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojfn.2022.517
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Bansah, Gifty Selorm. 2022. "An evaluation of Eating Pattern and Nutritional Status of Police Personnel in the Tamale Metropolis in Ghana". Current Research in Public Health 1, no. 1: 27-39. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojfn.2022.517
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Bansah GS. An evaluation of Eating Pattern and Nutritional Status of Police Personnel in the Tamale Metropolis in Ghana. Current Research in Public Health. 2022; 1(1):27-39. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojfn.2022.517 
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