Out-of-Pocket Payments, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty Among Households in Nigeria 2010
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2322-5939
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2018.19