Principles of economic evaluation of health programmes.
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چکیده
All countries, no matter what their stage of industrial development, need to make tough choices on how to use their scarce resources. The competition for resources is not only between different sectors of the economy, but within each sector as well. Should more resources be devoted to education or to health care? Within the health care sector: should more resources be devoted to primary care or to high-technology medicine? Within the treatment options for a given clinical condition (e.g. inguinal hernia), should extra resources be allocated to expand day-care surgery?
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عنوان ژورنال:
- World health statistics quarterly. Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales
دوره 38 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985