Dedicated issue on rural health: Inspiration, celebration, and a challenge for the future

Family Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 690-692

  Wendling, Andrea L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; RURAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78249280301     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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