The role of scale in conceptualizing primary health care practice: Considering social and institutional structures and systems

Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-92

  Wiles, Janine L ^a   Rosenberg, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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