The cost of providing primary health-care services from a needle and syringe program: A case study
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2013
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Islam, Md Mofizul
Shanahan, Marian
Topp, Libby
Conigrave, Katherine
White, Ann
Day, Carolyn
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Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group
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Introduction and Aims: Targeted primary health-care services for injecting drug users have been established in several countries to reduce barriers to health care, subsequent poor health outcomes and the considerable costs of emergency treatment. The long
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Keywords: article; economics; health care cost; human; needle; preventive health service; primary health care; syringe; Health Care Costs; Humans; Needle-Exchange Programs; Needles; Primary Health Care; Syringes Cost analysis; Injecting drug use; Low-threshold health care; Needle syringe program; Primary health care
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Drug and Alcohol Review
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