Ethics and equity in the time of Coronavirus
Katherine H. Hall 1 4 , Fiona Doolan-Noble 1 , Eileen McKinlay 2 , Olivia Currie 3 , Ben Gray 2 , Lesley Gray 2 , Lauralie Richard 1 , Maria Stubbe 2 , Chrystal Jaye 1
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1 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2 Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
3 Department of General Practice, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
4 Corresponding author. Email: katherine.hall@otago.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 12(2) 102-106 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv12n2_ED2
Published: 29 June 2020
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2020 This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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