Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health

Health Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 612-618

  Paulden, Mike ^a,b   Claxton, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Discounting; Economic evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; BUDGETS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 84859427263     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1730     Document Type: Article

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