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Review
. 2019 Jun;9(1):010313.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.010313.

The 2018 Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care, is it useful?

Gijs Walraven  1
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Review

The 2018 Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care, is it useful?

Gijs Walraven. J Glob Health. 2019 Jun.
No abstract available

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Competing interests: The author has completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declares no conflicts of interest.

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