Health care and ideology: A reconsideration of political determinants of public healthcare funding in the OECD

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 225-240

  Herwartz, Helmut ^a   Theilen, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electoral cycles; OECD panel data; Partisan ideology; Public healthcare expenditure

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HALF LIFE TIME; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

ELECTORAL CYCLES; OECD PANEL DATA; PARTISAN IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTHCARE EXPENDITURE;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POLITICS;

EID: 84904240156     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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