Estimating the cost of new public health legislation

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 532-539

  Wilson, Nick ^a   Nghiem, Nhung ^a   Foster, Rachel ^a   Cobiac, Linda ^b   Blakely, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; LEGISLATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEW ZEALAND; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLIC HEALTH;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84863301010     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.097584     Document Type: Article

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