Health consumers in Canada: Swimming against a neo-liberal tide

Democratizing Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-207

  Church, John ^a   Armstrong, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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