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A master of public health must be the minimum prerequisite for a health minister: a timely proposal to discuss the necessary qualifications of the ideal health minister
  1. I D Dimoliatis
  1. University of Ioannina, Medical School, Ioannina, 45110 Greece; idimolia@cc.uoi.gr

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.9.755

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