Society's choice: The tradeoff between efficacy and equity and the lives at stake

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-56

  Woolf, Steven H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE; MEDICAL CARE; MINORITY GROUP; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TECHNOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042523258     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.03.005     Document Type: Review

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