Time to get serious about educating health professionals

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 193-195

  Renfrew, Mary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33749017600     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2006.00075.x     Document Type: Editorial

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