Introduction: The health benefits package: Bringing universal health coverage from Rhetoric to reality

What's In, What's Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-18

  Glassman, Amanda ^a   Giedion, Ursula ^c   Smith, Peter C ^b  

^a CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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