Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditure and Impoverishment Among Households Having Cardiovascular Patients in Tehran, 2017
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عنوان ژورنال: Shiraz E-Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1735-1391
DOI: 10.5812/semj.89088