Transforming health policy and services: Challenges for comparative research

Current Sociology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 569-578

  Burau, Viola ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; comparative policy research; cost containment; diversity in comparative health policy; health policy; multi level governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862672567     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392112438340     Document Type: Article

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