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Special Issue: Monitoring Health Determinants with an Equity Focus

Explaining the role of the social determinants of health on health inequality in South Africa

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Article: 28865 | Received 16 Jun 2015, Accepted 20 Aug 2015, Published online: 16 Sep 2015

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