Equity, Efficiency and Research Synthesis

Evidence-Based Decisions and Economics: Health Care, Social Welfare, Education and Criminal Justice, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-78

  McDaid, David ^a   Sassi, Franco ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Contextual analysis to inform decision modelling; Disability adjusted life year (DALY); Economic considerations in research synthesis; Equity considerations; Equity versus efficiency; Equity within economic evaluations; Equity, efficiency and research synthesis; Information retrieval establishing knowledge hub

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886471454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320398.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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