Health policy and horizontal inequities of health-care utilization in Australia: 1983-2005

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1765-1775

  Hajizadeh, Mohammad ^a   Connelly, Luke Brian ^b   Butler, James Robert Gerard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; health policy; health care utilization; horizontal inequity

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84861138184     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.659337     Document Type: Article

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