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Strategies for Increasing the Role of Family Medicine in Mexican Health Care Reform

José Manuel Ramírez Aranda, Chris van Weel and Felicity Goodyear-Smith
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2017, 30 (6) 843-847; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.06.170024
José Manuel Ramírez Aranda
From the Department of Family Medicine, Hospital Universitario Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico (JMRA); Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Department of Health Services and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (CvW); Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (FGS).
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Chris van Weel
From the Department of Family Medicine, Hospital Universitario Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico (JMRA); Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Department of Health Services and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (CvW); Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (FGS).
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Felicity Goodyear-Smith
From the Department of Family Medicine, Hospital Universitario Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico (JMRA); Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Department of Health Services and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (CvW); Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (FGS).
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