Public and Private Sector Interface

Handbook of Health Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 927-1001

  Pita Barros, Pedro ^a   Siciliani, Luigi ^b  

^a NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Funding of health expenditures; Interaction of public and private providers; Public private interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 83255174927     PISSN: 15740064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53592-4.00015-3     Document Type: Chapter

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