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The Link Between Health Care

The Link Between Health Care
Spending and Health Outcomes:
Evidence from English Programme
Budgeting Data
CHE Research Paper 24

The Link Between Health Care Spending and Health
Outcomes: Evidence From English Programme
Budgeting Data
Stephen Martin*
Nigel Rice**
Peter C Smith
*Department of Economics
**Centre for Health Economics
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
March 2007

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Acknowledgements
This study was undertaken as part of the Quest for Quality and Improved Performance, a five-year
initiative of The Health Foundation. We are grateful to Hugh Gravelle, Andrew Jackson, Chris Young
and Peter Brambleby for helpful comments and advice. The material has also benefited greatly from
comments from Chris Murray (Harvard Initiative for Global Health), Dean Jamison (University of
California, San Francisco) and participants at a seminar at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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