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[Comments on the teaching of sanitary engineering in Latin America].
1 Published in Spanish in B&tin de la Oficina Sanikm%z Panamericana Vol. LXII, No. 6 (June 1967), pp. 531-537. 2 Consultant in Sanitary Engineering Education, PAHO/WHO, Zone II, Mexico City. future in view of the increasing needs in environmental sanitation. Manpower is the major factor in the success or failure of the national sanitation programs, for the financing problem has been largely ove...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1944
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.34.6.598