From activism to state inclusion: Health consumer groups in Australia

Democratizing Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-192

  Löfgren, Hans ^a   Leahy, Michael ^a   de Leeuw, Evelyne ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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