Health coverage and what Kenya can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic

Polet Njeri Ouma¹, Abednego Nzyuko Masai², Israel Nyaburi Nyadera^{3

4}

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¹ Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
² Department of Public Health, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, Macau.
⁴ Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.

PMID: 33110557
PMCID: PMC7565744
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020362

Health coverage and what Kenya can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic

Polet Njeri Ouma et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;10(2):020362.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020362.

Authors

Polet Njeri Ouma¹, Abednego Nzyuko Masai², Israel Nyaburi Nyadera^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
² Department of Public Health, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, Macau.
⁴ Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.

PMID: 33110557
PMCID: PMC7565744
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020362

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Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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