Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic healthcare expenditures in Iran
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1975-8375,2233-4521
DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.19.046