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Resource Allocation: Education for the Rationing of Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

John Lister
Affiliation:
British Post-Graduate Medical Federation

Extract

In considering the allocation of resources for health it is necessary to make a distinction between the provision of public and environmental health services and the provision of medical care by physicians and surgeons for those patients who seek treatment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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