The dynamics of health (original) (raw)

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We are grateful to Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo and Teresa Bago d'Uva for their research assistance in preparing the empirical results for the ECHP. The ECHP UDB -version of December 2003 was supplied by Eurostat.

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