Syria: Neoliberal reforms in health sector financing: Embedding unequal access?

Social Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-182

  Sen, Kasturi ^a   al Faisal, Waleed ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

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