Title of article
The overprovision of infectious disease medicine
Author/Authors
John Douglas Sk?tun، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
Pages
6
From page
61
To page
66
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a so far ignored negative externality imposed by the provision of life prolonging drugs to infected carriers of infectious diseases. Private optimal usage tends to imply socially inefficient over-provision of life enhancing infectious disease medication.
Keywords
epidemics , Externalities , Drug provision
Journal title
Economics Letters
Serial Year
2003
Journal title
Economics Letters
Record number
435206
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