Improving health-related information systems to monitor equity in health: Lessons from Thailand

The Economics of Health Equity

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 222-246

  Tangcharoensathien, Viroj ^a   Limwattananon, Supon ^a   Prakongsai, Phusit ^a  

^a NONE   (Thailand)

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EID: 66749170192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511544460.012     Document Type: Chapter

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