Out-of-Pocket Patient Payments for Public Health Care Services in Bulgaria
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Out-of-Pocket Patient Payments for Public Health Care Services in Bulgaria
1 Department of Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, 2 Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3 Topinstitute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, Maastricht, N...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00175