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A comparative study of Taiwan's short-term medical missions to the South Pacific and Central America

BACKGROUND: Taiwan has been dispatching an increasing number of short-term medical missions (STMMs) to its allied nations to provide humanitarian health care; however, overall evaluations to help policy makers strengthen the impact of such missions are lacking. Our primary objective is to identify u...

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Autores principales:	Chiu, Ya-Wen, Weng, Yi-Hao, Chen, Chih-Fu, Yang, Chun-Yuh, Chiou, Hung-Yi, Lee, Ming-Liang
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23270459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-12-37

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