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Figure 2: adapted from Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) in Review Paper The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows Goran Dahlgren, Margaret Whitehead, Department of Public Health, Policy, and Systems, University of Liverpool

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