What's behind the health expenditure trends?

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue , 2003, Pages 385-412

  Mehrotra, Ateev ^a   Dudley, R Adams ^a   Luft, Harold S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care reform; National health insurance; Public health; United States

Indexed keywords

AGING; DYING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MANAGED CARE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; PHYSICIAN INCOME; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, UNITED STATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037490128     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.141008     Document Type: Review

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