Aging and health care expenditure: A comment on Zweifel, Felder and Meiers

Health Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-177

  Briggs, Andrew H ^a,b   O'Brien, Bernie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Health care expenditures; Multilevel analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BUDGET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DYING; GENDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035061970     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.593     Document Type: Article

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