Health Spending Follows Pace of Population Aging: Challenges Lying Ahead of the Largest Western Balkan Market

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Stojkovic, Milica ^a   Milovanovic, Olivera ^a  

^a University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

aging; expenditure; health; medical care; population; Serbia; spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964465292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00058     Document Type: Article

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