How Equity‐Oriented Health Care Affects Health: Key Mechanisms and Implications for Primary Health Care Practice and Policy
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عنوان ژورنال: The Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0887-378X,1468-0009
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12349