Michael Cooper, NZ’s father of health economics, understood primary care

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Michael Cooper, NZ’s father of health economics, understood primary care

Liane
Topham-Kindley
Michael Cooper
In recent years Michael Cooper became the director of a boutique olive oil busi­ness, Molive of Martinborough Ltd

An enthusiast for integrated healthcare before its time, the late Michael Cooper used his considerable gifts to communicate about healthcare and advance the way it is organised

Michael Cooper, a former chair of the Otago Area Health Board and an academic known as the father of health economics in New Zealand, has died after a