Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana: The cognitive and affective basis of trust in a high-risk, low-regulation context
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112369
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Ghana; Trust; Uncertainty; Medicine quality; Medicine supply chains; Ethnography; Risk;All these keywords.
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