Income-related inequities: Cross-sectional analyses of the use of medicare sorvices in British Columbia in 1992 and 2002

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Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  McGrail, Kimberlyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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