Does the unification of health financing affect the distribution pattern of out‐of‐pocket health expenses in Turkey?
dc.contributor.author | Cinaroglu, Songul | |
dc.contributor.author | Baser, Onur | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-20T17:05:16Z | |
dc.date.available | WITHHELD_14_MONTHS | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-20T17:05:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cinaroglu, Songul; Baser, Onur (2019). "Does the unification of health financing affect the distribution pattern of out‐of‐pocket health expenses in Turkey?." International Journal of Social Welfare (3): 293-306. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-6866 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2397 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/149529 | |
dc.publisher | Binghamton University, State University of New York | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
dc.subject.other | Turkey | |
dc.subject.other | out‐of‐pocket health expenditures | |
dc.subject.other | health care | |
dc.subject.other | health reform | |
dc.subject.other | unification of health financing system | |
dc.subject.other | poverty alleviation | |
dc.subject.other | poverty | |
dc.title | Does the unification of health financing affect the distribution pattern of out‐of‐pocket health expenses in Turkey? | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | |
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dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ijsw.12389 | |
dc.identifier.source | International Journal of Social Welfare | |
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