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The Changing Economic Milieu in the United States

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Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy

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Dr. Florence Wilson and I have spent 15 years attempting to describe Health Services in the United States and we are currently working on the fifth edition of a book with this title. We are still far from satisfied.

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Neuhauser, D. (1988). The Changing Economic Milieu in the United States. In: van Eimeren, W., Horisberger, B. (eds) Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61366-1_2

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