Diseases of refugees—Causes, effects and control
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygienePublished 1 January 1984
Bruce Dick
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Journal Article Diseases of refugees—Causes, effects and control Get access Bruce Dick Bruce Dick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 78, Issue 6, 1984, Pages 734–741, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(84)90004-X Published: 01 January 1984
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