The impact of government decentralization on county health spending for the uninsured in California

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 237-258

  Scheffler, Richard ^a,b,c   Smith, Richard B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Federalism; Public health; State and local budget and expenditures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT; POLICY; POLITICS; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COST ALLOCATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL WORK; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNCOMPENSATED CARE;

EID: 39049194657     PISSN: 13896563     EISSN: 15736962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10754-006-9003-6     Document Type: Article

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