Do health care workforce, population, and service provision significantly contribute to the total health expenditure? An econometric analysis of Serbia

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Santric Milicevic, M ^a   Vasic, V ^a   Terzic Supic, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Econometric analysis; Health care workforce; Population growth; Serbia; Service provision; Total health expenditure

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIFFERENTIATION; FINANCE; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SERBIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HOSPITALIZATION; MANPOWER; PUBLIC SECTOR;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PUBLIC SECTOR; SERBIA;

EID: 84982085553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0146-3     Document Type: Article

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