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Editors: Otar Vasadze (Georgia) Otar Gerzmava (Georgia) Daniel J.
West, Jr. (USA) Editorial Board: Rifat Atun (UK) Harold W. Baillie (USA) Attorney Michael J. Costello (USA) Bui Dang Ha Doan (France) Amiran Gamkrelidze (Georgia) Toralf Hasvold (Norway) Ramaz Khetsuriani (Georgia) Vladimir Krcmery (Slovakia) Arsen Kubataev (Russia) Maksut Kulzhanov (Kazakhstan) Askar Kutanov (Kirgizstan) Milan Murgas (Slovakia) Migran Nazaretyan (Armenia) Viera Rusnakova (Slovakia) Roman Shakarishvili (Georgia) Oleg Schepin (Russia) Gaioz Vasadze (Georgia) Nino Vepkhvadze (Georgia) William G. Wallick (USA) Akaki Zoidze (Georgia) Publication of the Journal was made possible due to funding through the United States Agency for International Development administered by the American International Health Alliance National Institute of Health, Georgia The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA Journal of HealtH ScienceS ManageMent and Public HealtH Volume 5, Number 2, 2004, 75-162 The Journal of Health Sciences Management and Public Health is published quarterly in English with Georgian summaries for each article.
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