The burden of out-of-pocket payments for health care in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

JAMA

Volumn 287, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1043-1049

  Skarbinski, Jacek ^a   Kenneth Walker, H ^b   Baker, Laurence C ^a   Kobaladze, Archil ^c   Kirtava, Zviad ^d   Raffin, Thomas A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^d National Information Learning Centre   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037181162     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.287.8.1043     Document Type: Article

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