Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: evidence from Vietnam.

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Published in Int J Equity Health on May 27, 2009

Authors

Henrik Axelson1, Sarah Bales, Pham Duc Minh, Björn Ekman, Ulf-G Gerdtham

Author Affiliations

1: Health Economics and Management, Institute of Economic Research, Lund University, Sweden. axelsonh@who.int.

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