Unidentical twins: recent social policy developments in Canada and the United States
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Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal
Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2169-9763,2169-978X
DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2019.1568280