Unlocking potential: challenges for primary health care researchers in the prison setting
Primary Health Care Research & DevelopmentPublished 1 April 2006Open access
Gill Hek
Citations16
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Development features a number of papers concerned with researching the needs of, and services for, socially excluded groups, and many opportunities exist for researchers to develop knowledge and understanding of a very needy population.
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