Population-level Spatial Access to Prehospital Care by the National Ambulance Service in Ghana.

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Published in Prehosp Emerg Care on April 13, 2016

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Gavin Tansley, Barclay Stewart, Ahmed Zakariah, Edmund Boateng, Christiana Achena, Daniel Lewis, Charles Mock

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