The distribution problem in economic evaluation: income and the valuation of costs and consequences of health care programmes.

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Published in Health Econ on January 01, 2002

Authors

Cam Donaldson1, Stephen Birch, Amiram Gafni

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Economics, Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. cdonalds@ucalgary.edu

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