Supplementary private health insurance and health care utilization of people aged 50+

Empirical Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 501-524

  Bíró, Anikó ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care utilization; Private health insurance; SHARE

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; RETIREMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84893797465     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0689-2     Document Type: Article

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