Evidence and information for health policy: a decade of change

Lopez, Alan D

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05612.x

Topics

Health services administration

Environment and public health

Burden-of-disease and cost-effectiveness studies will help us realise better population health

School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.

Correspondence:

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