Health care capacity and allocations among South Africa's provinces: infrastructure-inequality traps after the end of apartheid.

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Published in Am J Public Health on January 01, 2011

Authors

David Stuckler1, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology and Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. David.stuckler@aya.yale.edu

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