Health insurance for the poor: impact on catastrophic and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Mexico
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1618-7598,1618-7601
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-009-0180-3