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On the Discounting of Gains in Life Expectancy: Reply to Johannesson and Levin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Eddy van Doorslaer  and
Léon Martens
Eddy van Doorslaer
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Léon Martens
Affiliation:
Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
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Letters to the Editors
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Fall 1991 , pp. 653 - 656
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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