Ageing, health, and health care

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 674-690

  Breyer, Friedrich ^a   Costa Font, Joan ^b   Felder, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Health care expenditure; Longevity; Red herring hypothesis; Value of a statistical life

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; OECD;

CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 79956059965     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grq032     Document Type: Article

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