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Medical expenditure after marginal cut of cash benefit among public assistance recipients in Japan: natural experimental evidence

BACKGROUNDS: Income reduction in poor households affects healthcare demands for impoverished population. However, the impact of reduced benefits for public assistance recipients, who can use medical services for free, on healthcare costs has not been examined. We hypothesised that marginal cuts in b...

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Autores principales: Nishioka, Daisuke, Takaku, Reo, Kondo, Naoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34772688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217296