The long-term fiscal impact of funding cuts to Danish public fertility clinics

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 830-837

  Connolly, Mark P ^a,b   Postma, Maarten J ^a   Crespi, Simone ^c   Andersen, Anders Nyboe ^d   Ziebe, Søren ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Global Market Access Solutions   (Switzerland)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

economics; generational accounting; health investment; IVF; reproductive medicine; tax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST OF REPRODUCTION; DENMARK; FERTILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCOME; LIVE BIRTH; MEDICAL ETHICS; PENSION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SOCIAL INSURANCE; TAX;

ADULT; DENMARK; HUMANS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TAXES;

EID: 84155162568     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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