Financing universal health coverage - Effects of alternative tax structures on public health systems: Cross-national modelling in 89 low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9990, 2015, Pages 274-280

  Reeves, Aaron ^a   Gourtsoyannis, Yannis ^b   Basu, Sanjay ^b,c,d   McCoy, David ^c   McKee, Martin ^b   Stuckler, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CAPITAL; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SURVIVAL RATE; TAX; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; INSURANCE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTHCARE FINANCING; HUMANS; TAXES; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84937629889     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60574-8     Document Type: Article

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