Pharmaceutical expenditure, total health-care expenditure and GDP

Health Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1187-1206

  Clemente, Jesús ^a,b   Marcuello, Carmen ^a   Montañés, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cointegration and structural breaks; Elasticity; Gross domestic product; Pharmaceutical expenditure; Total health care expenditure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INCOME; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DRUG COSTS; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 57349115244     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1317     Document Type: Article

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