Population Health and Health Care Use: An Information System for Policy Makers

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-30

  Roos, Noralou P ^a,b   Black, Charlyn ^a   Frohlich, Norman ^a   Decoster, Carolyn ^a  

^a Manitoba Ctr Hlth Plcy and Eval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MANITOBA; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0029686016     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3350429     Document Type: Article

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