Does More Public Health Spending Buy Better Health?
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Does More Public Health Spending Buy Better Health?
BACKGROUND In this article, we attempt to address a persistent question in the health policy literature: Does more public health spending buy better health? This is a difficult question to answer due to unobserved differences in public health across regions as well as the potential for an endogenous relationship between public health spending and public health outcomes. METHODS We take advant...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2333-3928,2333-3928
DOI: 10.1177/2333392815580750