Teaching population health as a basic science at Harvard Medical School

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 332-337

  Finkelstein, Jonathan A ^a,b   McMahon, Graham T ^c   Peters, Antoinette ^a   Cadigan, Rebecca ^d   Biddinger, Paul ^a,d   Simon, Steven R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Center for Population Health Education

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEACHING;

EID: 41449092373     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318166a62a     Document Type: Review

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