Does the financial protection of health insurance vary across providers? Vietnam's experience

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 559-567

  Sepehri, Ardeshir ^a   Sarma, Sisira ^b   Oguzoglu, Umut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care expenditures; Health insurance; Unobserved heterogeneity; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIET NAM;

AMBULATORY CARE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; VIETNAM;

VIET NAM;

EID: 80051801889     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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