What can global health institutions do to help strengthen health systems in low income countries?

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Published in Health Res Policy Syst on June 29, 2010

Authors

Dina Balabanova1, Martin McKee, Anne Mills, Gill Walt, Andy Haines

Author Affiliations

1: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SY, UK. martin.mckee@lshtm.ac.uk.

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