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Health and Economics

Proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol, 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Alan Williams

    1. University of York, UK

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Health Economics: The Cheerful Face of the Dismal Science?

    • Alan Williams
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Measurement of Inequality in Health

    • Raymond Illsley, Julian Le Grand
    Pages 12-36

  4. The Geography of Poverty and Ill-Health

    • Peter Townsend
    Pages 37-67

  5. Distributive Justice with Special Reference to Geographical Inequality and Health Care

    • Gavin Mooney, Alistair McGuire
    Pages 68-81

  6. Transforming the Geography of Health Care: Spatial Inequality and Health Care in Contemporary England

    • John Mohan
    Pages 82-105

  7. Suicide, Selection and Unemployment

    • Hugh Gravelle
    Pages 106-138

  8. Economic and Health Consequences of Reduced Smoking

    • Joy Townsend
    Pages 139-161

  9. The Economic Evaluation of High Technology Medicine: The Case of Heart Transplants

    • Martin Buxton
    Pages 162-172

  10. Economic Analysis and Medical Research

    • Michael Drummond
    Pages 173-186

  11. Markets and Health Care

    • Alan Maynard
    Pages 187-200

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-212
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Alan Williams

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health and Economics

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol, 1986

  • Editors: Alan Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18800-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-43735-3Published: 04 September 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-18800-0Published: 04 September 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 212

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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