Concepts belonging to the economic evaluation and value measurement of health interventions, distinct from health systems and policy concepts about how systems and coverage are organized. Belongs here: the quality-adjusted life year, the standard health-economic outcome measure. Does not belong here: a concept about coverage or system design itself, grouped under health systems and policy.
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Yet, it was only in 1931 that economic concerns came to the agenda, with the creation of the AMA Bureau of Medical Economics, established to study all economic matters affecting the medical profession.
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