Health care and economic well-being: Estimating equivalence scales for public health care utilization

Health Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 613-625

  Klavus, Jan ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Equivalence scares; Health care; Non cash transfers; Welfare comparisons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WELFARE; WELLBEING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 0032758372     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199911)8:7<613::AID-HEC480>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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