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Realizing potential: improving interdisciplinary professional/paraprofessional health care teams in Canada's northern aboriginal communities through education

Bruce Minore Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Margaret Boone Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Pages 139-147 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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