Catastrophic Health Expenditure Among Iranian Rural and Urban Households, 2013 - 2014
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure Among Iranian Rural and Urban Households, 2013 - 2014
BACKGROUND During the last two decades, the trend of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) for health services by Iranian households has been a matter of concern and it has exposed a significant proportion of them to catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate three objectives: First, the mean of out-of-pocket payments among Iranian households ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2074-1804,2074-1812
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.30974