Determinants of Health Outcomes in Industrialised Countries: a Pooled, Cross-country, Time-series Analysis
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Introduction................................................................................................................................ 54 Specification of a health production function: theoretical framework ............................... 55 Measuring health status ....................................................................................................... 55 Impact of the medical system.............................................................................................. 56 Impact of environmental factors.......................................................................................... 58 Data and methods..................................................................................................................... 60 Results ........................................................................................................................................ 61 Discussion .................................................................................................................................. 63 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 69 Bibliography............................................................................................................................... 74
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