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Informal payments by patients in Croatia: benign custom or detrimental residue from socialism? Cover

Informal payments by patients in Croatia: benign custom or detrimental residue from socialism?

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Language: English
Page range: 49 - 63
Submitted on: Sep 29, 2019
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Accepted on: Nov 27, 2019
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