Need: An Instrumental View

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 231-238

  Culyer, Anthony J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

'need' for medical care and 'demand' for care; 'need' interpreted instrumentally; Bradshaw's normative need, felt, expressed, comparative need; Concept of 'need'; Forward looking prospective need

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849096701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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