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Managing a difficult ethical and legal equilibrium in healthcare: Assuring access to the basics while keeping up with innovation
A gestão de um difícil equilíbrio ético-legal em saúde: assegurar o acesso aos cuidados básicos mantendo a inovação
Paula Lobato Faria
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pa.lobfaria@ensp.unl.pt

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, João V. Cordeiro
Grupo de Disciplinas/Departamento de Ciências Sociais em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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