Should Health Gains by Children be Given the Same Value as Health Gains by Adults in an Economic Evaluation Framework?

Economic Evaluation in Child Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petrou, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health gain; Health outcomes; QALY; Quality adjusted life year; Resource allocation; Revealed preference; Stated preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922061596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547494.003.15     Document Type: Chapter

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