Unemployment, public-sector healthcare expenditure and colorectal cancer mortality in the European Union: 1990–2009

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 119-130

  Maruthappu, Mahiben ^a,b   Watson, Robert A ^a   Watkins, Johnathan ^c   Williams, Callum ^d,e   Zeltner, Thomas ^f   Faiz, Omar ^a,g   Ali, Raghib ^h,i   Atun, Rifat ^b,j  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Colorectal cancer; European Union; Healthcare spending; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNEMPLOYMENT;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC SECTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84953355049     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-015-0727-2     Document Type: Article

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