Trends in general practice in the Waikato, 1979-80/1991-92, II: Social variations in service use and clinical activity

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1077, 1998, Pages 419-421

  Davis, Peter ^a   Lay Yee, Roy ^a   Finn, Elizabeth ^a   Gribben, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0032514816     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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