Negotiating the new health care system in Cape Town, South Africa: Five case studies of the acutely chronically III

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 515-532

  Gibson, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Health care; Inequalities; Political economy; South Africa; Space; Time; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMBULANCES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH TRANSITION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLITICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0035751996     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2001.15.4.515     Document Type: Article

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