Health care and income distribution in Finland

Health Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-43

  Klavus, Jan ^a   Häkkinen, Unto ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Health care financing; Noncash transfers; Progressivity; Redistribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INCOME;

EID: 0030270619     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-8510(96)00835-4     Document Type: Article

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