Income elasticity of health expenditures in Iran

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 665-679

  Zare, Hossein ^a,b   Trujillo, Antonio J ^a   Leidman, Eva ^a   Buttorff, Christine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

health expenditure; income elasticity; Iran; quantile regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; INCOME ELASTICITY; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTILE REGRESSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

HEALTH EXPENDITURE; INCOME ELASTICITY; IRAN; QUANTILE REGRESSION;

ADULT; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INCOME; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 84883474764     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czs106     Document Type: Article

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