The demand for health: Results from new measures of health capital

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 501-521

  Gerdtham, U G ^a   Johannesson, M ^a   Lundberg, L ^b   Isacson, D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b Department of Pharmacy   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C24; C25; Censored models; Demand for health; Discrete models; Health production; Health status; I10; I12

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006943082     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(99)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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