Health benefits and health cost savings due to pets: Preliminary estimates from an Australian national survey

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-243

  Headey, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032779451     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006892908532     Document Type: Article

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