The exportation of managed care to Latin America

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 1131-1136

  Stocker, Karen ^a   Waitzkin, Howard ^a   Iriart, Celia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MANAGED CARE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033535578     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199904083401425     Document Type: Article

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