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Health Care in the United States, System Dynamics Applications to

Authors : Gary Hirsch, Jack Homer

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Title: Health Care in the United States, System Dynamics Applications to
Authors: Gary Hirsch
Jack Homer
Publisher: Springer New York
Book: Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-7700-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-7701-4

Copyright Year: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7701-4_29

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