Effects of private health insurance on health care utilization and expenditures in Korean cancer patients: Focused on 5 major cancers in one cancer center

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-335

  Lim, Jin Hwa ^a   Choi, Kui Son ^a   Kim, Sung Gyeong ^a   Park, Eun Cheol ^a   Park, Jae Hyun ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Health expenditures; Insurance; Moral hazard; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PRIVATE SECTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34548590460     PISSN: 19758375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.2007.40.4.329     Document Type: Article

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