Health care costs in the elderly in Germany: An analysis applying Andersen's behavioral model of health care utilization

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Heider, Dirk ^a   Matschinger, Herbert ^a,b   Müller, Heiko ^c   Saum, Kai Uwe ^c   Quinzler, Renate ^d   Haefeli, Walter Emil ^d   Wild, Beate ^e   Lehnert, Thomas ^a   Brenner, Hermann ^c   König, Hans Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andersen behavioral model; Cost of illness study; Cross sectional study; Elderly; Health care costs; Health care utilization; Multimorbidity

Indexed keywords

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84893725552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-71     Document Type: Article

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