Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on June 14, 2012

Authors

Catherine Kahabuka1, Karen Marie Moland, Gunnar Kvåle, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. cka083@cih.uib.no

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