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Supported by grants from The Chief Scientist's Office of the Ministry of Health (evaluation); Associate Director General's Unit for Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health (intervention); and the National Institute for Health Services Research (evaluation).
The field work for this study was conducted while L.R. was at the School of Public Health, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Conflicts of interest: None to report.