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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

New dawn or false dawn? – what are the challenges in implementing Localities?

Tim Tenbensel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7832-3318 1 *
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1 School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: t.tenbensel@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(3) 197-199 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22096
Published: 6 September 2022

© 2022 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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