The global financial crisis and access to health care in Africa

Africa Today

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 34-54

  Mensah, Joseph ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL CRISIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC ACCESS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84900346371     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: 15271978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.60.3.35     Document Type: Article

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