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Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
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Improving life expectancy with primary health care

Richard Baker https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-0086 1 *
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1 Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.

* Correspondence to: rb14@le.ac.uk

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(2) 104-105 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23058
Published: 23 June 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)


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