A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: The relationship between food prices and medical expenditures on diabetes

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1271-1282

  Meyerhoefer, Chad D ^a   Leibtag, Ephraim S ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

diabetes; food policy; food prices; medical expenditures

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL PRICE; DIABETES; FOOD POLICY; HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78650603898     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaq064     Document Type: Article

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