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Review
. 2002 Nov 16;325(7373):1170-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1170.

Education and Debate: WHO's management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy"

Gavin Yamey  1
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Review

Education and Debate: WHO's management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy"

Gavin Yamey. BMJ. .
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Representation of women professional staff 1990-2001
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Primary health care, announced WHO in 1977, would be the way to achieve health for all by 2000
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55th World Health Assembly, Geneva
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Comment in

  • WHO responds.
    Aitken D. Aitken D. BMJ. 2003 Jan 25;326(7382):217-8. doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7382.217. BMJ. 2003. PMID: 12543842 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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