Atella, Vincenzo; Conti, Valentina - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 10-17
A large body of literature shows that time to death (TTD) is by far a better predictor of health spending than age. In this paper, we investigate if this finding holds true also in presence of primary care costs (pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tests and specialist visits) in Italy, where they...