Regional inequality in China's health care expenditures

Health Economics

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Chou, Win Lin ^a   Wang, Zijun ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence test; Government budget deficits; Health expenditure inequality; Income inequality; Panel cointegration test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70349215365     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1511     Document Type: Article

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