Cost containment and health care reforms in the British NHS

Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 733-781

  Fattore, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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