Access and utilization reconsidered: Towards a broader understanding of the spatial ordering of primary health care

Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-56

  Hanlon, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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