Education for child health workers in developing regions.
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چکیده
PiEDIATRICS, with its modern combined curative, preventive and social perspectives, and working in firm alliance with preventive medicine, is, or should be, one of the most important aspects of medical education in the technically developing regions of the tropics, including East Africa. Reasons for this are numerical and qualitative, and also because a healthy childhood population represents the prime economic investment for the future.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Postgraduate medical journal
دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1962