Flat-of-the-curve medicine: a new perspective on the production of health
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Keywords
production of health; control over health status; willingness to pay;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
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