The impact of increasing health insurance coverage on disparities in mortality: Health care reform in Colombia, 1998-2007

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Arroyave, Ivan ^a,b,c   Cardona, Doris ^b   Burdorf, Alex ^a   Avendano, Mauricio ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COLOMBIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874088289     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301143     Document Type: Article

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