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The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main...

The aim of medical innovations is to improve health. A medical innovation can be defined as the application of new medical knowledge, often but not always embodied in a product, for example a pharmaceutical drug. Improved medical knowledge is the product of investments in medical research and/or...