Integrating Human–Animal Care Through a Public Health–Driven One Health Clinic Model in Pima County, Arizona, October 2023–February 2024.
One Health clinics integrate human, animal, and environmental health to provide interdisciplinary health care and community resources to people experiencing homelessness (PEH). Five mobile, public health–led One Health clinics were newly implemented in Pima County, Arizona, during October 2023–Febru...
| Publicado en: | Public Health Reports Vol. 141; no. 1; pp. 31 - 38 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan/Feb2026
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