Local governance, health financing, and changing patterns of inequality in access to health care

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 46-68

  Duckett, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 72449202013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203961971     Document Type: Chapter

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