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Still waiting for the great leap forward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

ALAN SHIELL
ALAN SHIELL*
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Professor, AHFMR Health Scientist and CIHR / PHAC Chair in the Economics of Public Health, Population Health Intervention Research Centre, University of Calgary, Canada
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*Email: ashiell@ucalgary.ca
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 255 - 260
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