Abstract
Information about health and health care is acquiring salience as an economic issue because of the rising aggregate expenditures on health services and the impact of out-of-pocket outlays on family budgets. Policy makers are concerned since actual and proposed efforts to remove financial barriers to the receipt of health care make the other variables that may affect utilization, among them information, more important. And the relation of this body of information to health status has broad socio-economic implications.
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Muller, C.F. (1981). Economic Aspects of Information on Health and Health Care. In: Galatin, M., Leiter, R.D. (eds) Economics of Information. Social Dimensions of Economics, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8168-3_13
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