Developing Integrated Multistate Environmental Public Health Surveillance
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Environmental Health Surveillance: A Critical Function of Public Health Laboratories
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1078-4659
DOI: 10.1097/01.phh.0000338367.74327.80