Economic evaluation. Part 1: Introduction to the concepts of economic evaluation in health care
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Economic evaluation. Part 1: Introduction to the concepts of economic evaluation in health care.
The past three decades have seen a rapid growth in the discipline of health economics, particularly in the area of economic evaluation of health care interventions. The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the concepts of economic evaluation in health care, and the methodological issues pertaining to the identification, measurement and valuation of costs and benefits. In a subse...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1471-1893,0000-0000
DOI: 10.1783/147118906776276549