Health Systems Research on Access to Medicines: Unpacking Challenges in Implementing Policies in the Face of the Epidemiological Transition

Overview

Journal BMJ Glob Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2018 Sep 21

PMID 30233825

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Authors

Maryam Bigdeli

Zubin Cyrus Shroff

Isabelle Godin

Abdul Ghaffar

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