The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health

Manson's Tropical Diseases: Twenty-Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-30

  Bloom, David E ^a   Fink, Günther ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 84906675044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-5101-2.00004-2     Document Type: Chapter

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