Petro-state constraints on health policy: Guidelines for workable reform in Venezuela

Health Policy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-55

  Trujillo, Antonio J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Apt 105 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health care reform; Health economics; Managed competition; Petro state; Social health insurance; Venezuela; Venezuelan health care system

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0347355428     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(03)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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