Trade in health services: Current challenges and future prospects of globalization

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 164-175

  Smith, Richard ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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