Uses of Epidemiology
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The uses of 'Uses of epidemiology'.
In 1944 the Association for Education in Citizenship published a pamphlet entitled ‘Health’ by Major Jerry Morris1 (of the Royal Army Medical Corps), as one of a series of Handbooks for Discussion Groups. The preface to the pamphlets in this series said that they were intended to be used by discussion circles concerned with the social, economic and political problems that arose from the Second ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1958