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Health reform: The human resource challenges for Central Asian Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries

,Accepted 30 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2009.01.002

Collegian
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 35-40 , January 2009