Measuring health inequality in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis

Research on Economic Inequality

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 491-507

  Asaria, Miqdad ^a   Griffin, Susan ^a   Cookson, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Equity; Health inequalities; Public health; Social value judgements; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901474844     PISSN: 10492585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1049-2585(2013)0000021024     Document Type: Article

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