Economic evaluations of the effects of longevity on telemedicine and conventional healthcare provision

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 431-434

  Wang, Fuhmei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

conventional health services; longevity; telecommunications health services

Indexed keywords

CURRENT QUANTITIES; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; LONG TERM CARE; LONGEVITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE SYSTEMS;

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE;

HEALTH;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STANDARD; TAIWAN; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TAIWAN; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 79960522433     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2010.0200     Document Type: Article

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