The impact of scientific research on health care: Evidence from the OECD countries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 325-332

  Moscone, Francesco ^a   Tosetti, Elisa ^a   Costantini, Marco ^b   Ali, Maged ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care expenditure; Health care productivity; Perinatal mortality; Scientific research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875262588     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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