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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Evaluation of a multilingual oral health DVD for newly arrived refugees

Praveena Gunaratnam A B D , Lidija Sestakova C , Mitchell Smith B C and Siranda Torvaldsen B
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A NSW Public Health Officer Training Program, NSW Ministry of Health, 73 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia.

B School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

C NSW Refugee Health Service, PO Box 144, Liverpool BC, NSW 1871, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: pguna@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

Health Promotion Journal of Australia 24(2) 159-159 https://doi.org/10.1071/HE13070
Submitted: 26 August 2013  Accepted: 8 September 2013   Published: 30 October 2013


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