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Evaluating Japan's Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging

In: Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

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  • Naohiro Yashiro
  • Reiko Suzuki
  • Wataru Suzuki

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  • Naohiro Yashiro & Reiko Suzuki & Wataru Suzuki, 2006. "Evaluating Japan's Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging," NBER Chapters, in: Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan, pages 17-42, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Watanabe, Ryo & Hashimoto, Hideki, 2012. "Horizontal inequity in healthcare access under the universal coverage in Japan; 1986–2007," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(8), pages 1372-1378.

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