Discounting, preferences, and paternalism in cost-effectiveness analysis

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 297-318

  Tinghög, Gustav ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Discounting; Paternalism; Preference failures; Time preferences

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PATERNALISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PATERNALISM;

EID: 84864058250     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-011-0188-6     Document Type: Article

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