Medicines and universal health coverage: challenges and opportunities

Affiliations

¹ Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
² Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 USA.
³ Department of Learning Informatics Management Ethics and Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Private Mail Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand.

Maryam Bigdeli et al. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2015.

. 2015 Feb 16;8(1):8.

doi: 10.1186/s40545-015-0028-4. eCollection 2015.

¹ Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
² Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 USA.
³ Department of Learning Informatics Management Ethics and Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Private Mail Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand.

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