Responses to the Criticism About “Drug Demand Function for Iranian Urban Households Based on Households’ Budget”

authors:

avatar Ramin Ravangard 1 , avatar Abdosaleh Jafari 1 , * , avatar Soraya Nouraei Motlagh 2

Health Human Resource Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran
Department of Health Economics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Health Scope: Vol.4, issue 2; e61571
published online: May 2, 2015
article type: Other
received: December 25, 2014
revised: January 18, 2015
accepted: February 1, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17795/jhealthscope-26398

how to cite: Ravangard R, Jafari A, Nouraei Motlagh S. Responses to the Criticism About “Drug Demand Function for Iranian Urban Households Based on Households’ Budget”. Health Scope. 2015;4(2):e61571. https://doi.org/10.17795/jhealthscope-26398.

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