Patients' migration across regions: The case of Italy

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1751-1757

  Levaggi, Rosella ^a   Zanola, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; SERVICE PROVISION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4644344531     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000227903     Document Type: Article

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