Chapter 2 An overview of the normative economics of the health sector

Handbook of Health Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 2000, Pages 55-118

  Hurley, Jeremiah ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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D6 (D61; D62; D63); economic evaluation; extra welfarism; health care efficiency; health care equity; I10; I11; J18; welfare economics

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EID: 77956749005     PISSN: 15740064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0064(00)80161-4     Document Type: Chapter

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