Cost of illness: An international comparison. Australia, Canada, France, Germany and The Netherlands

Health Policy

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-61

  Heijink, Richard ^a   Noethen, Manuela ^b   Renaud, Thomas ^c   Koopmanschap, Marc ^d   Polder, Johan ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Federal Statistical Office of Germany   (Germany)

^c Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics   (France)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Health expenditures; International comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; NETHERLANDS; NURSING CARE; RESIDENTIAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 50149085926     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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