Trends in inequalities in mortality amenable to health care in 17 european countries

Health Affairs

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1110-1118

  Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Hu, Yannan ^a   Artnik, Barbara ^b   Bopp, Matthias ^c   Costa, Giuseppe ^d   Kalediene, Ramune ^e   Martikainen, Pekka ^f   Menvielle, Gwenn ^g   Strand, Bjørn H ^h   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ⁱ   Nusselder, Wilma J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

ⁱ NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORTALITY; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MALE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85020270642     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1674     Document Type: Article

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