Looking to Europe: The Netherlands: regulated competition behind the dykes?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7725, 2009, Pages 839-842

  Westert, Gert P ^a,b   Burgers, Jako S ^c   Verkleij, Harry ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL INSURANCE;

EID: 70349861956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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