Chapter 35 Equity in health

Handbook of Health Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 2000, Pages 1863-1910

  Williams, Alan ^a   Cookson, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

distribution; economic methodology; equity; government expenditures and health; government policy; inequality; justice; other normative criteria and measurement; public health; publicly provided goods; regulation; relationship of economics to social values

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956736926     PISSN: 15740064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0064(00)80048-7     Document Type: Review

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