Measuring or valuing population health: Some conceptual problems

Public Health Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-239

  Hausman, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868196580     PISSN: 17549973     EISSN: 17549981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/phe/phs011     Document Type: Article

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