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The Effects of Healthcare Quality on the Willingness to Pay More Taxes to Improve Public Healthcare: Testing Two Alternative Hypotheses from the Research Literature Cover

The Effects of Healthcare Quality on the Willingness to Pay More Taxes to Improve Public Healthcare: Testing Two Alternative Hypotheses from the Research Literature

Annals of Global Health
Volume 85 (2019): Issue 1
By: Nazim Habibov,  Rong Luo and  Alena Auchynnikava  
Open Access
|Nov 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2462 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Published on: Nov 7, 2019
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