Macroeconomic Dynamics of Health: Lags and Variability in Mortality, Employment, and Spending

Encyclopedia of Health Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 165-176

  Getzen, T E ^a  

^a International Health Economics Association (IHEA)   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Dynamics; Employment; Forecasts; Growth curves; Health expenditures; Income effects; Inequalities; Inflation; Lags; Macroeconomics; Mortality; National health accounting; Recession; Time series; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908572272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00606-4     Document Type: Chapter

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