Economics of Public Health : : Measuring the Economic Impact of Diseases / / Burton A. Weisbrod.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1961 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Part One. Introduction, and Consideration of the Proposition That "Good Health Is Good Business"
- Part Two. The Economic Nature of Health Activities. A Theoretical Analysis
- Part Three. The Economic Losses from Poor Health.Their Form and Measurability
- Part Four. The Economic Costs to the United States of Poor Health. Illustrative Quantifications for the Diseases Cancer, Tuberculosis, and Poliomyelitis
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index