Inequity in household's capacity to pay and health payments in Tehran-Iran-2013

Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 674-684

  Rezapour, Aziz ^a   Ebadifard Azar, Farbod ^b   Azami Aghdash, Saber ^a   Tanoomand, Asghar ^c   Ahmadzadeh, Nahal ^d   Sarabi Asiabar, Ali ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MARAGHEH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Management and Planning Organization   (Iran)

Author keywords

Capacity to pay; Health inequality; Healthcare financing; Out of pocket payment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963629112     PISSN: 10161430     EISSN: 22516840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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