Europe has a long history of developing social protection systems which are rooted in the egalitarian tradition. Health care is no exception and most European Union member states have long achieved fairly universal coverage for their populations for a rather comprehensive package of health care serv
Income-related inequalities of health and health care utilization
โ Scribed by E. Xie
- Book ID
- 107373963
- Publisher
- Higher Education Press and Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 428 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1673-3444
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