The use of cost-sharing to control demand and the implications for equity: some theoretical and empirical evidence for Italy
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Cost-sharing; Equity in access; Health care demand; Tickets in Italy.;All these keywords.
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- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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