Market-oriented health care reforms: Trends and future options
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Market-oriented health care reforms: trends and future options.
In many (predominantly) publicly financed health care systems market-oriented health care reforms are being implemented or have been proposed. The purpose of these reforms is to make resource allocation in health care more efficient, more innovative and more responsive to consumers preferences while maintaining equity. At the same time, the advances in technology result in a divergence of consu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(96)00111-6