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What Roma nonadherence is likely and what drives it? Reply to Broz and Nunes

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Kosice Institute for Society and Health, P.J. Safarik University, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11, Kosice, Slovakia

    Andrej Belak, Andrea Madarasova Geckova & Jitse P. van Dijk

  2. Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia

    Andrej Belak & Andrea Madarasova Geckova

  3. Department of Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Andrej Belak, Jitse P. van Dijk & Sijmen A. Reijneveld

  4. Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Andrej Belak

  5. Olomouc University Society and Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Andrea Madarasova Geckova & Jitse P. van Dijk

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Belak, A., Madarasova Geckova, A., van Dijk, J.P. et al. What Roma nonadherence is likely and what drives it? Reply to Broz and Nunes. Int J Public Health 64, 805–807 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01250-z

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