
Rethinking Scale-Up of Rehabilitation for Chronic Disease in Low-Resource Settings: Embracing Complexity for Contextual Impact
By: Martin Heine, Wayne Derman and Susan Hanekom
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1360 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: May 23, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 24, 2024
Published on: Oct 7, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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