Universal Health Insurance in India: Ensuring equity, efficiency, and quality

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 142-149

  Prinja, Shankar ^a   Kaur, Manmeet ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Equity; health financing; health insurance; India; universal healthcare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866264051     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.99907     Document Type: Article

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