Health care quality, economic inequality, and precautionary saving

Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 327-346

  Jappelli, Tullio ^a,b,c   Pistaferri, Luigi ^c,d,e   Weber, Guglielmo ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b CSEF   (Italy)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SIEPR ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care; Income inequality; Precautionary saving

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME; ITALY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 34147131291     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1172     Document Type: Article

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