Protecting pro-poor health services during financial crises: Lessons from experience

Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 2009, Pages 23-53

  Gottret, Pablo ^a   Gupta, Vaibhav ^a   Sparkes, Susan ^a   Tandon, Ajay ^a   Moran, Valerie ^a   Berman, Peter ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY;

EID: 77951963414     PISSN: 07312199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0731-2199(2009)0000021005     Document Type: Article

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