Challenging health economics

This text mounts a critique of health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis...

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Main Author: Mooney, Gavin H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009, 2009
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