Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on March 16, 2005

Authors

R A Atun1, Y A Samyshkin, F Drobniewski, N M Skuratova, G Gusarova, S I Kuznetsov, I M Fedorin, R J Coker

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Health Management, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, London, England. r.atun@imperial.ac.uk

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