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How leisure activities affect health: a narrative review and multi-level theoretical framework of mechanisms of action

Daisy Fancourt, Henry Aughterson, Saoirse Finn and 2 more

The Lancet Psychiatry · 2021 · Review

doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(20)30384-9

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