A concise, health service coverage index for monitoring progress towards universal health coverage

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Leegwater, Anthony ^a   Wong, Wendy ^b   Avila, Carlos ^a  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health service coverage; Index; Principal component analysis; Universal health coverage

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 85018138098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-0859-3     Document Type: Article

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