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Urban Health in the Third World: A Guide to the Literature

Sarah J. Atkinson

Urban Health Programme, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

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Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 5, No. 2, 146-152 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789300500212


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