Choice of health insurance by families of the mentally ill

Health Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-76

  Deb, Partha ^a   Wilcox Gök, Virginia ^b   Holmes, Ann ^a   Rubin, Jeffrey ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental illness; Private health insurance

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE SELECTION BIAS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INSURANCE, MAJOR MEDICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029692351     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199601)5:1<61::AID-HEC180>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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