Health care utilisation in Europe: New evidence from the ECHP

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-279

  Bago d'Uva, Teresa ^a,b   Jones, Andrew M ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care utilisation; Hurdle models; Inequity; Latent class models; Panel data

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INCOME; MODELING; PROBABILITY;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; EUROPE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GREECE; IRELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 62049084651     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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