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Country profile on family medicine and primary health care in Ghana

Henry J.O. Lawson, Akye Essuman
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 8, No 1 | a1302 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1302 | © 2016 Henry J.O. Lawson, Akye Essuman | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 09 September 2016 | Published: 24 November 2016

About the author(s)

Henry J.O. Lawson, Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Ghana
Akye Essuman, Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Ghana

Abstract

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Keywords

family medicine; primary health; Ghana

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