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The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification

BACKGROUND: This article investigates the importance of regional health care availability for old age survival. Using German reunification as a natural experiment, we show that spatial variation in health care in East Germany considerably influenced the convergence of East German life expectancy tow...

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Autores principales: Vogt, Tobias C., Vaupel, James W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-015-0060-2