Guidelines on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector
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This document enjoys copyright protection through the sponsoring organisations of the ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Joint Programme on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector. As an ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Joint Programme Working Paper, the study is meant as a preliminary document and circulated to stimulate discussion and to obtain comments. The responsibility for opinions expressed in this study rests solely with their authors, and the publication does not constitute an endorsement by ILO, ICN, WHO and PSI of the opinion expressed in them.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003