Disparities in health care utilization by smoking status in Canada

Sunday Azagba (), Mesbah Sharaf and Christina Xiao Liu

International Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 58, issue 6, 913-925

Abstract: Tobacco consumption elevates the use of health care services, especially among the high-use group. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2013

Keywords: Smoking; Health care utilization; Unobserved heterogeneity; Finite mixture model; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-013-0452-7

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