Contingent valuation in health care

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 425-434

  Donaldson, Cam ^a   Mason, Helen ^a   Shackley, Phil ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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