The effect of changes in health sector resources on infant mortality in the short-run and the long-run: A longitudinal econometric analysis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1918-1925

  Farahani, Mansour ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a   Canning, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Global; Health related human resources; Infant mortality; Physician density

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECONOMETRICS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; INFANT MORTALITY; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; CAPITAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PHYSICIANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 65749117977     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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