Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action

@article{Bobashev2011PolicyRT,
  title={Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action},
  author={Georgiy V. Bobashev and Maureen L. Cropper and Joshua M. Epstein and D. Michael Goedecke and Stephen Hutton and Mead Over},
  journal={Public Health Law \& Policy eJournal},
  year={2011},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154552134}
}
Positive externalities and complementarities between countries in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate pandemic influenza are examined to suggest that it is in the self-interest of high-income countries to pay for some antiviral treatment in low- Income countries.
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