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M-health services equipped with public sector community health centers (MH-PS-CHCs), an emerging public-private joint venture in China: adoption from M-health Users’ Perspective

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Pages 1928-1942 | Received 17 Aug 2021, Accepted 19 Aug 2022, Published online: 29 Aug 2022

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