Effect of restricting access to health care on health expenditures among asylum-seekers and refugees: A quasi-experimental study in Germany, 1994-2013

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Bozorgmehr, Kayvan ^a   Razum, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYLUM SEEKER; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REFUGEE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIGRANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84941753192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131483     Document Type: Article

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