A New Approach To Measuring Health System Output and Productivity

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-116

  Castelli, Adriana ^a   Dawson, Diane ^a   Gravelle, Hugh ^a   Jacobs, Rowena ^a   Kind, Paul ^a   Loveridge, Pete ^b   Martin, Stephen ^a   O'Mahony, Mary ^b   Stevens, Philip ^b   Stokes, Lucy ^b   Street, Andrew ^a   Weale, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health output; productivity; quality adjustments

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749182543     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: 17413036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00279501072000011201     Document Type: Article

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