Abstract:
:Along with the rest of Central and Eastern Europe, Croatia has begun to dismantle its long-standing socialist health care system and to replace it with a market-based approach. Marketization's advocates maintain that the market will bring efficiency and quality to the Croatian health care system. Nevertheless, data from consumer surveys and official statistics reflect the reform's hidden costs: limited access to care, heightened costs, growing inequality, and the deemphasis of preventive and proactive care in favor of costly therapeutic medicine.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Chen MS,Mastilica Mdoi
10.2105/ajph.88.8.1156subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-08-01 00:00:00pages
1156-60issue
8eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048journal_volume
88pub_type
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301453
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.149146
更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.070482
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304563
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.94.6.923
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1984-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2013-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.167999
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00