Lifelong investment in health: the discursive construction of problems in Hong Kong health policy.

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This paper reflects on the contemporary health policy debate in Hong Kong, and the shape assigned to particular problems. Health reform discourses are identified to reveal the tensions that exist between the dominant biomedical discourse that focuses on ... (Full abstract text below)

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