The health care jobs fallacy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 2433-2435

  Baicker, Katherine ^a   Chandra, Amitabh ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; LEADERSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SHORT SURVEY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84862905397     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1204891     Document Type: Article

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