Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries.

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Published in Lancet on December 13, 2008

Authors

Gunilla Backman1, Paul Hunt, Rajat Khosla, Camila Jaramillo-Strouss, Belachew Mekuria Fikre, Caroline Rumble, David Pevalin, David Acurio Páez, Mónica Armijos Pineda, Ariel Frisancho, Duniska Tarco, Mitra Motlagh, Dana Farcasanu, Cristian Vladescu

Author Affiliations

1: Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg SE-402 42, Sweden. gunillabackman@yahoo.com

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