Estimating the cost of new public health legislation

OBJECTIVE: To develop a new method for estimating the cost to governments of enacting public health legislation. METHODS: We adopted a central government perspective in estimating costs. The parliamentary cost of legislative acts and regulations in New Zealand was calculated from the proportion of p...

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Main Authors: Nick Wilson, Nhung Nghiem, Rachel Foster, Linda Cobiac, Tony Blakely
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2012-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862012000700013&lng=en&tlng=en