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High Poverty and Hardship Financing Among Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases in Rural Haiti

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|Feb 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.388 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: May 16, 2019
Accepted on: Nov 19, 2019
Published on: Feb 6, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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