Europe and central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment: Aggregate impacts on health sector outcomes

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 322-340

  Wagstaff, Adam ^a   Moreno Serra, Rodrigo ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health finance; Health sector reform; Social health insurance

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES;

ALGORITHMS; ASIA, CENTRAL; COMMUNISM; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 62049083793     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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