Why publicly-financed health insurance schemes are ineffective in providing financial risk protection

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 60-68

  Selvaraj, Sakthivel ^a   Karan, Anup K ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

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