The impact of Medicare part D on income-related inequality in pharmaceutical expenditure

Abstract Background Income-related inequality measures such as the concentration index are often used to describe the unequal distribution of health, health care access, or expenditure in a single measure. This study demonstrates the use of such measures to evaluate the distributional impact of chan...

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Main Authors: Natalie Carvalho, Dennis Petrie, Linkun Chen, Joshua A. Salomon, Philip Clarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-0955-9