The Effect of Private and Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality Rates: Does the Level of Development Matter
published by Damascus University
in 2010
in
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
Does health expenditure reduce infant mortality rates (IMRs)? To answer
such important question we, first, disaggregate health expenditure into private and
public health expenditures and, second, classify countries into two groups according
to their level of development.
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