Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
The LancetPublished 30 November 2010Open access
Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan J. Cohen, Nigel Crisp, Timothy Evans
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