Unemployment, public-sector healthcare spending and stomach cancer mortality in the European Union, 1981-2009

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1222-1227

  Maruthappu, Mahiben ^a,b,i   Painter, Annabelle ^e   Watkins, Johnathan ^c   Williams, Callum ^d,e   Ali, Raghib ^f,j   Zeltner, Thomas ^k,l   Faiz, Omar ^b,g   Sheth, Hemant ^h  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d The Economist   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^k WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Government spending; Health economics; Mortality; Stomach cancer; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH CARE SPENDING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER; TIME LAG ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBANIZATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STOMACH TUMOR; TRENDS;

EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC SECTOR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84927690506     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0000000000000201     Document Type: Article

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