The struggle over employee benefits: The role of labor in influencing modern health policy

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-73

  Rosner, David ^a,b   Markowitz, Gerald ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Sociomedical Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHTHERIA; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFLUENZA; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY; TRADE UNION; UNITED STATES;

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LABOR UNIONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0038136607     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00038     Document Type: Review

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