Health care for poor people in the urban slums of Bangladesh

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9910, 2013, Pages 2049-2051

  Afsana, Kaosar ^a   Wahid, Syed Shabab ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^b BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MORTALITY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84890731113     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62295-3     Document Type: Note

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