Prevention Vs. Treatment: What's the Right Balance?
- ISBN-10
- 0199837376
- ISBN-13
- 9780199837373
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 397
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-14
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Authors
- Halley S. Faust, Paul T. Menzel
Description
Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine.
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