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The policy-practice gap: describing discordances between regulation on paper and real-life practices among specialized drug shops in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Specialized drug shops (SDSs) are popular in Sub-Saharan Africa because they provide convenient access to medicines. There is increasing interest in how policymakers can work with them, but little knowledge on how their operation relates to regulatory frameworks. This study sought to des...

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Autores principales:	Wafula, Francis, Abuya, Timothy, Amin, Abdinasir, Goodman, Catherine
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25227916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-394

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