Public preferences for government spending in Canada
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Public preferences for government spending in Canada
This study considers three questions: 1. What are the Canadian public's prioritization preferences for new government spending on a range of public health-related goods outside the scope of the country's national system of health insurance? 2. How homogenous or heterogeneous is the Canadian public in terms of these preferences? 3. What factors are predictive of the Canadian public's preferences...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-64