What Macroeconomists Should Know about Health Care Policy /

This primer explains why macroeconomists need to be concerned with issues of health policy and elaborates the essential information that a macroeconomist should know in providing inputs to discussions on health sector policy. The primer illustrates how these issues and the range of appropriate polic...

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1. Verfasser: Heller, Peter
Weitere Verfasser: Hsiao, William
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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