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Paying in potatoes: community-based health insurance for the rural and informal sector

✍ Scribed by Rebecca L Hope

Book ID
117284487
Publisher
The Lancet
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
362
Category
Article
ISSN
0140-6736

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