Applying DALY to assessing national health insurance performance: The relationship between the national health insurance expenditures and the burden of disease measures in Iran

International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-98

  Russel, Mehdi ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burden of disease; Costs and cost analysis; Epidemiologic factors; Health care financing; Health insurance; Health priorities standards; Health status indicators; Iran

Indexed keywords

EXPENDITURE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH MONITORING; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IRAN; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 21044454876     PISSN: 07496753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hpm.800     Document Type: Article

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