Five metaphors about global-health policy.

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Published in Lancet on July 12, 2008

Authors

David Stuckler1, Martin McKee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1ST, UK. ds450@cam.ac.uk

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