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Is the incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation really so simple? A comment on Cookson, Drummond and Weatherly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

JEFF RICHARDSON
JEFF RICHARDSON*
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Professor and Foundation Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Australia
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*Email: jeff.richardson@buseco.monash.edu.au
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 247 - 254
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