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4 - World health and global health challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
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Rice University, Houston
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Biomedical Engineering for Global Health , pp. 54 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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