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Anne A. Scitovsky
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Dallas, November 1983, and was supported by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Reprinted from The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society, Vol. 62, No. 4, 1984 (pp. 591-608). Style and usage are unchanged.
Author(s): Anne A. Scitovsky
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Volume 83, Issue 4 (pages 825-841) DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00402.x Published in 2005
