The capability approach: An alternative evaluation paradigm for health economics?

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 415-424

  Smith, Richard ^a   Lorgelly, Paula ^b   Al Janabi, Hareth ^c   Venkatapuram, Sridhar ^a   Coast, Joanna ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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