Aging, health expenditure, proximity to death, and income in Finland

Health Economics, Policy and Law

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-195

  Häkkinen, Unto ^a   Martikainen, Pekka ^b   Noro, Anja ^a   Nihtilä, Elina ^a   Peltola, Mikko ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCOME; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 41849096386     PISSN: 17441331     EISSN: 1744134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S174413310800443X     Document Type: Article

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