Quality primary health care will drive the realization of universal health coverage

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hospital Internal Medicine (Dugani), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Nutrition and Population Global Practice (Veillard, Evans), The World Bank Group, Wash.; Institute of Health Policy (Veillard), Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. dugani.chandrasagar@mayo.edu.
² Division of Hospital Internal Medicine (Dugani), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Nutrition and Population Global Practice (Veillard, Evans), The World Bank Group, Wash.; Institute of Health Policy (Veillard), Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

Comment

Sagar Dugani et al. CMAJ. 2018.

. 2018 Apr 16;190(15):E453-E454.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.180186.

¹ Division of Hospital Internal Medicine (Dugani), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Nutrition and Population Global Practice (Veillard, Evans), The World Bank Group, Wash.; Institute of Health Policy (Veillard), Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. dugani.chandrasagar@mayo.edu.
² Division of Hospital Internal Medicine (Dugani), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Nutrition and Population Global Practice (Veillard, Evans), The World Bank Group, Wash.; Institute of Health Policy (Veillard), Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Sagar Dugani reports personal fees from The World Bank Group, outside the submitted work.

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