Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 6 , Pages 552-557 , June 2008

Going where no doctor has gone before: The role of Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine in meeting the needs of some of the world's most vulnerable populations

Received 31 January 2008 ,Revised 29 February 2008 ,Accepted 6 March 2008.

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PII: S0033-3506(08)00071-1

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.001

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 6 , Pages 552-557 , June 2008