Unpaid time represents a potentially significant input into the health production function. The paper sets out the basis for valuation of time inputs consistent with the notion of opportunity cost. Such analysis requires consideration of whether time displaced in the production of health involves lo
Evaluating the economic costs of migraine: interest of a comparative approach
✍ Scribed by Jean François Dartigues; Philippe Michel; Patrick Henry
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1129-2369
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