Is healthcare a ‘Necessity’ or ‘Luxury’? an empirical evidence from public and private sector analyses of South-East Asian countries?

Health Economics Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Khan, Jahangir A M ^a,b,c   Mahumud, Rashidul Alam ^a,b  

^a Centre for Equity and Health Systems   (Bangladesh)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fixed and Random effect models; Healthcare expenditure; Income elasticity; Public and private sectors; South East Asian Region; Universal health coverage

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FIXED EFFECT MODEL; GENDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; INCOME; INDONESIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALDIVES; MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEPAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM EFFECT MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIAN; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS; THAILAND;

EID: 84971254267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21911991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-014-0038-y     Document Type: Article

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