Caring for the World : : A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities / / Paul Drain, Stephen A. Huffman, Sara Pirtle, Kevin Chan.
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health pract...
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