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Post-Conflict Health System Recovery: The Case of Kosovo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frederick M. Burkle Jr.*
Affiliation:
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA; Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice, Monash University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

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Editorial Comments
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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