Health care expenditures and longevity: is there a Eubie Blake effect?

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-112

  Breyer, Friedrich ^a   Lorenz, Normann ^b   Niebel, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 year survival rate; Ageing; Health care expenditures; Longevity

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84894446646     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0564-x     Document Type: Article

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