Health economics: Investment in health could be good for Europe's economies

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7576, 2006, Pages 1017-1019

  Suhrcke, Marc ^a   McKee, Martin ^b   Arce, Regina Sauto ^c   Tsolova, Svetla ^c   Mortensen, Jørgen ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for European Policy Studies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EUROPE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; IMMUNIZATION; INVESTMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW;

COMMERCE; EFFICIENCY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS;

EID: 33750955485     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38951.614144.68     Document Type: Note

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