Health system costs by sex, age and proximity to death, and implications for estimation of future expenditure

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 1393, 2014, Pages 12-25

  Blakely, Tony ^a   Atkinson, June ^a   Kvizhinadze, Giorgi ^a   Nghiem, Nhung ^a   McLeod, Heather ^b   Wilson, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORTALITY; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; FORECASTING; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84903170720     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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