Health care systems: Efficiency and policy settings

Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings

Volumn 9789264094901, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-207

  Joumard, Isabelle ^a   Hoeller, Peter ^a   André, Christophe ^a   Nicq, Chantal ^a  

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