Vast majority of development assistance for health funds target those below age sixty

Health Affairs

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 926-930

  Skirbekk, Vegard ^a,b   Ottersen, Trygve ^c   Hamavid, Hannah ^d   Sadat, Nafis ^d   Dieleman, Joseph L ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH FUNDING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL HEALTH; INCOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 85018971591     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1370     Document Type: Article

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