Preventive care: Underused even when free. Is there something else at work?

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 239-253

  Carrieri, Vincenzo ^a   Bilger, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

General Practitioner; Health beliefs; Nonmonetary access barriers; Preventive care; Recursive probit model

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN CAPITAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052858353     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.597729     Document Type: Article

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