Adverse or acceptable: negotiating access to a post-apartheid health care contract.

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Published in Global Health on May 15, 2014

Authors

Bronwyn Harris1, John Eyles, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Liz Thomas, Jane Goudge

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. bronwyn.harris@wits.ac.za.

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