General Practitioners responses to global climate change - Lessons from clinical experience and the clinical method

Asia Pacific Family Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Blashki, Grant ^a   Abelsohn, Alan ^b   Woollard, Robert ^c   Arya, Neil ^d   Parkes, Margot W ^e   Kendal, Paul ^c   Bell, Erica ^f   Bell, R Warren ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Active Staff   (Canada)

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EID: 84867364291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1447056X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1447-056X-11-6     Document Type: Review

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