Multiple crises and global health: New and necessary frontiers of health politics
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Multiple crises and global health: New and necessary frontiers of health politics
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1744-1692,1744-1706
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2012.691524