The public economics of tuberculosis control.
This paper identifies specific sources of the failure of private markets to allocate TB control resources efficiently. These market failures, as well as the concentration of the disease amongst the poor, suggest a number of roles for public intervention. Government intervention should aim to either increase, add to, or substitute for private supply, depending on the type of market failure and the institutional capacity of the public sector.
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Department of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. wgi@georgetown.edu
D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000191:economics*; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005380:Financing, Government; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics; D017150:Public Sector / Q000191:economics*; D012935:Social Justice; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States