Health care during transition and health systems reform: Evidence from the poorest CIS countries

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-408

  Bonilla Chacin, Maria E ^a   Murrugarra, Edmundo ^a   Temourov, Moukim ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

CIS 7 countries; Health care; Health spending; Poverty; Reform

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; QUALITY CONTROL;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 27744446848     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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