Economic downturns, universal health coverage, and cancer mortality in high-income and middle-income countries, 1990–2010: a longitudinal analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10045, 2016, Pages 684-695

  Maruthappu, Mahiben ^a   Watkins, Johnathan ^b,d   Noor, Aisyah Mohd ^b   Williams, Callum ^e   Ali, Raghib ^f,g   Sullivan, Richard ^c   Zeltner, Thomas ^h,i   Atun, Rifat ^j  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Pilar Research and Education   (United Kingdom)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NEWBORN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; INCOME; INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PUBLIC SECTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC SECTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84969786574     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00577-8     Document Type: Article

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