This article presents an approach to public policy in health that comes directly from the literature on public economics. It identifies two characteristic market failures in health. The first is the existence of large externalities in the control of many infectious diseases that are mostly addressed by standard public health interventions. The second is the widespread breakdown of insurance markets that leave people exposed to catastrophic financial...
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2002/01/01
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Журнальная статья
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2013/04/17
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Weak links in the second chain : a prescription for health policy in poor countries
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incidence of public spending