Inequality Status of Household Medical Expenditure Distribution by Household Income Quartile and Associated Factors with Household Catastrophic Medical Expenditure in Korea
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Household Catastrophic Health Expenditure
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Informatics and Statistics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2465-8014,2465-8022
DOI: 10.21032/jhis.2017.42.3.232