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A country divided? Regional variation in mortality in Ukraine

Adrianna Murphy1, Nataliia Levchuk, Andrew Stickley

  • 1European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK, adrianna.murphy@lshtm.ac.uk.

International Journal of Public Health
|March 26, 2013
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