Public spending on health care and the poor

Health Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 685-696

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Verhoeven, Marijn ^a   Tiongson, Erwin R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Poverty; Public spending

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041423393     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.759     Document Type: Article

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