Evaluation of a multilingual oral health DVD for newly arrived refugees.
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Praveena Gunaratnam, Lidija Sestakova, Mitchell Smith and Siranda Torvaldsen NSW Public Health Officer Training Program, NSW Ministry of Health, 73 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. NSW Refugee Health Service, PO Box 144, Liverpool BC, NSW 1871, Australia. Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
دوره 24 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013