The adequacy of household survey data for evaluating the nongroup health insurance market

Health Services Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1739-1757

  Cantor, Joel C ^a   Monheit, Alan C ^a,b   Brownlee, Susan ^a   Schneider, Carl ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care surveys; Health insurance; Nongroup insurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347385627     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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