Public reform and the privatisation of poverty: Some institutional determinants of health seeking behaviour in southern Tanzania

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-430

  Green, Maia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PRIVATIZATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA;

EID: 0034546833     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005686728159     Document Type: Article

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