Equity analysis of hospital beds distribution in Shiraz, Iran 2014

Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hatam, Nahid ^a   Zakeri, Mohammadreza ^a   Sadeghi, Ahmad ^b   Ramandi, Sajad Darzi ^c   Hayati, Ramin ^b   Siavashi, Elham ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Equity; Gini coefficient; Hospital beds; Lorenz curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015371592     PISSN: 10161430     EISSN: 22516840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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