Preferences for health insurance and health status: Does it matter whether you are Dutch or German?

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-95

  Vroomen, Janet MacNeil ^a   Zweifel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discrete Choice Experiment; Germany; Health insurance; Health status; Preference measurement; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79551600823     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-010-0248-0     Document Type: Article

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