Broader health coverage is good for the nation's health: Evidence from country level panel data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-124

  Moreno Serra, Rodrigo ^a   Smith, Peter C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health coverage; Health financing; Mortality; Panel data econometrics; Reverse causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916593160     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12048     Document Type: Article

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