Trends in scale and structure of Korea's health expenditure over last three decades (1980-2009): Financing, functions and providers

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 27, Issue SUPP, 2012, Pages

  Jeong, Hyoung Sun ^a   Shin, Jeong Woo ^b  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei Institute for Health and Welfare   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Current health expenditure; National health accounts (NHA); Public health expenditure; System of health accounts (SHA); Total health expenditure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84862899709     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2012.27.S.S13     Document Type: Article

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