Be rich or don’t be sick: estimating Vietnamese patients’ risk of falling into destitution

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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vuong, Quan Hoang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Government policy on health care; Health insurance; Risk of destitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942319090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1279-x     Document Type: Article

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