Winners and Losers: Expansion of Insurance Coverage in Russia in the 1990s

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2124-2130

  Balabanova, Dina C ^a   Falkingham, Jane ^b   McKee, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; POLICY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MANAGED COMPETITION; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RUSSIA; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 0642337998     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.12.2124     Document Type: Article

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