Does health-care spending crowd out other provincial government expenditures?

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-141

  Landon, Stuart ^a   McMillan, Melville L ^a   Muralidharan, Vijay ^a   Parsons, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Government of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC SPENDING; SERVICE PROVISION; STATE ROLE;

EID: 33746894528     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4128724     Document Type: Article

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