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Public or private health care?
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00084.x
Subject(s) - public health , public administration , gerontology , medicine , political science , nursing
In the early 1840s the Statistical Society of London was active in monitoring and comparing mortality rates in private licensed “mad‐houses” and large public asylums. David Spiegelhalter looks at the investigations of William Farr.