Does major illness cause financial catastrophe?

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 418-436

  Cook, Keziah ^b   Dranove, David ^a   Sfekas, Andrew ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Costs of illness; Health insurance coverage; Median regression; Medical bankruptcy; Triple difference; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

BANKRUPTCY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77949300588     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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