Who is filling what? The contrast between oral health and human health resources in Mexico

Critical Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-166

  Maupomé, Gerardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

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