Arab Refugees: Medical Relief Work in Jordan
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1 Electrical Engineering, Director of the Excellence center at Yarmouk University, Jordan 2 Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 3 PhD candidate National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 4 Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, London 5 RN, MSc National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Gree...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1950
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4661.1070