Equity in health and health care in a decentralised context: Evidence from Canada

Health Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-392

  Jiménez Rubio, Dolores ^a   Smith, Peter C ^a   Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canada; Concentration Index; Decentralisation; Equity decomposition; Equity in health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS;

CANADA; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POLITICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATE GOVERNMENT;

EID: 41049085198     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1272     Document Type: Article

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