Services for the care and prevention of birth defects. Reduced report of a World Health Organization and March of Dimes Foundation meeting;Servicios para la atención y la prevención de defectos congénitos. Síntesis de una reunión de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y la Fundación March of Dimes

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 806-813

  Taucher, Silvia Castillo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Abnormalities; Hemoglobinopathies; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL DISORDER; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENETIC SERVICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOUNDATIONS; GENETIC SERVICES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34548323829     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: 07176163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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