The international performance of healthcare systems in population health: Capabilities of pooled cross-sectional time series methods

Health Policy

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 122-132

  Reibling, Nadine ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Error correction model; Infant mortality; International comparison; Performance analysis; Population health; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFANT MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84885175945     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.05.023     Document Type: Article

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