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Primary health care comes full circle.
Dr Halfdan Mahler served three terms as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1973 to 1988. He joined WHO in 1951 as a senior officer attached to the National Tuberculosis Programme in India. He came to WHO headquarters in 1962 as chief of the tuberculosis programme, a post he held until 1969. From 1969 until 1970, he served as director of project systems analysis. From 1...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Issues
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0192-513X,1552-5481
DOI: 10.1177/0192513x14536565