The demand side of financial exploitation: The case of medical debt

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 785-803

  Seifert, Robert W ^a  

^a The Access Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit; Health care; Subprime and predatory lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044479408     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2004.9521520     Document Type: Article

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