Reducing Barriers: Migrations, Minor Ailments and Medicines
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GPs' attitudes to minor ailments.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1551-7411
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.01.007