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Barbara Starfield

Barbara Starfield, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is author of Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology.

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Put doctors where they count.

Barbara Starfield

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No one who is concerned with justice as a basic principle would deny the value of income redistribution, particularly in view of the powerful relationship between income inequality and ill health. The...
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