As the health divide widens in Sweden and Britain, what’s happening to access to care?

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7114, 1997, Pages 1006-1009

  Whitehead, Margaret ^a   Diderichsen, Finn ^a   Evandrou, Maria ^b   Haglund, Bengt ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KING S FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; SWEDEN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0030846489     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7114.1006     Document Type: Article

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