The costs of disease burden in Iran

Authors

  • Ezatollah Abbasian <p>Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran</p>
  • Ali Poormohammadi <div dir="ltr">Lecturer, Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran</div>

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22122/cdj.v3i2.152

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2015-06-30

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Abbasian E, Poormohammadi A. The costs of disease burden in Iran. Chron Dis J. 2015;3(2):87–88.

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