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Framing health reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2013

Julian Le Grand  and
Zack Cooper
Julian Le Grand*
Affiliation:
Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Zack Cooper
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
*
*Correspondence to: Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Email: j.legrand@lse.ac.uk
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 251 - 257
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