BRIC’s Growing Share of Global Health Spending and Their Diverging Pathways

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jakovljevic, Mihajlo B ^a  

^a University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

BRICS; global health; health care reform; health expenditures; long term; trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977878454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00135     Document Type: Article

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