Ageing of population and health care expenditure: A red herring?

Health Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 485-496

  Zweifel, Peter ^a   Felder, Stefan ^b   Meiers, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregate health care expenditure; Cost of dying; Population ageing

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICARE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032826957     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199909)8:6<485::AID-HEC461>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Review

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