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  1. 3rd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, 6, Odysseos Str (1st Parodos Ampelonon Str.), Pylaia, 55535, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis

  2. Department of Occupational and Industrial Hygiene, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

    Sotirios Koupidis

  3. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece

    Kyriakos Souliotis

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Fountoulakis, K.N., Koupidis, S. & Souliotis, K. Legislation without implementation: a never-ending tragedy of the health system in Greece with sustainability of wasting resources. J Public Health Pol 41, 98–101 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-019-00197-y

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