The health care delivery crisis in Haiti

Family Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 666-669

  Fournier, Arthur M ^a   Dodard, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY MEDICINE; HAITI; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL CARE; POLITICS;

AMERICAS; CARIBBEAN; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HAITI; HEALTH; LATIN AMERICA; NEEDS; NORTH AMERICA; OBSTACLES; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; POLITICAL FACTORS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HAITI; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICS;

EID: 0030762727     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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