Noncommunicable disease-attributable medical expenditures, household financial stress and impoverishment in Bangladesh
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عنوان ژورنال: SSM - Population Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2352-8273
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.10.001