Socioeconomic Status and Use of Outpatient Medical Care: The Case of Germany.

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Published in PLoS One on May 27, 2016

Authors

Jens Hoebel1, Petra Rattay1, Franziska Prütz2, Alexander Rommel2, Thomas Lampert1

Author Affiliations

1: Unit of Social Determinants of Health, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
2: Unit of Health Reporting, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

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