Report of a 1999 survey of public health nurses: Is public health restructuring in Ontario, Canada moving toward primary health care?

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 172-183

  Falk Rafael, Adeline ^a   Fox, Joyce ^b   Bewick, Diane ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Simcoe County District Health Unil   (Canada)

^c Middlesex London Health Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

full time equivalents; primary health care; public health nurses; registered nurses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868704024     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1463423605pc240oa     Document Type: Article

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