Time to death and the forecasting of macro-level health care expenditures: Some further considerations

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 876-887

  van Baal, Pieter H ^a   Wong, Albert ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Health care expenditures; Time to death

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84866305277     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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