Colombia's big bang health insurance reform

The Impact of Health Insurance in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-177

  Giedion, Ursula ^c   Flórez, Carmen Elisa ^c   Díaz, Beatriz Yadira ^a   Alfonso, Eduardo ^c   Pardo, Renata ^b   Villar, Manuela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b National Planning Department on the Colombian Health System   (Colombia)

^c Latin America and Africa ^*

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