Making the SDGs useful: a Herculean task

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10053, 2016, Pages 1453-1454

  Sridhar, Devi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; EUROPEAN UNION; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; ICELAND; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84994131207     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31635-X     Document Type: Note

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