Striving for Equity : : healthcare in Sri Lanka from independence to the millennium, 1948-2000 / / Margaret Jones.
Focusing on the period from independence in 1948 to the millennium this book is an historical analysis of the process by which Sri Lanka became a model of how a nation with limited resources could nevertheless achieve health indicators on a par with the developed world through the development of a p...
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