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Assessing national governance of medicine promotion: an exploratory study in Ghana to trial a structured set of indicators

Marcia McLean1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health,University of Toronto,Toronto,Canada.Correspondence[email protected]
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Jillian Clare Kohler2 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy & Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency & Accountability in thePharmaceutical Sector,,Toronto,Canada.
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Danny Edwards3 Access to Medicine Foundation,Amsterdam,The Netherlands.;4 Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University,Utrecht,The Netherlands.
Article: 26 | Received 28 Dec 2018, Accepted 19 Jun 2019, Published online: 28 Nov 2023

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