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Measuring health inequality using qualitative data

✍ Scribed by R.Andrew Allison; James E. Foster

Book ID
116649499
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
239 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-6296

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