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Special Issue: ASEAN Integration and its Health Implications

Universal health coverage in ‘One ASEAN’: are migrants included?

Ramon Lorenzo Luis R. GuintoUniversal Health Care Study GroupUniversity of the Philippines Manila, Manila, PhilippinesCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ufara Zuwasti CurranNuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Rapeepong SuphanchaimatInternational Health Policy ProgrammeMinistry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand;Department of Global Health & DevelopmentLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Nicola S. PocockDepartment of Global Health & DevelopmentLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Article: 25749 | Received 16 Aug 2014, Accepted 11 Oct 2014, Published online: 24 Jan 2015

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