Decomposition of inequalities in health and health care

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 179-191

  O'Donnell, Owen ^a   van Doorslaer, Eddy ^b   Wagstaff, Adam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

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