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Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health*

✍ Scribed by Andrew M. Jones; Ángel López Nicolás

Book ID
106410058
Publisher
Springer US
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
176 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1569-1721

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