Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior

Handbook of Health Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 2000, Pages 1141-1174

  Sloan, Frank A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis of health care markets; boundaries of private and public enterprise; contracting out; government policy; nonprofit institutions; personal and professional services; privatization; public enterprises; public goods; public health; regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956731617     PISSN: 15740064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0064(00)80034-7     Document Type: Review

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