Health care is an individual necessity and a national luxury: Applying multilevel decision models to the analysis of health care expenditures

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 259-270

  Getzen, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Health Economics Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Health expenditures; Income elasticity; Multilevel analysis; Unit of observation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL POLICY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH INSURANCE; INCOME; REVIEW;

EID: 0034026093     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6296(99)00032-6     Document Type: Article

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