Is publicly funded health care really distributed according to need? The example of cardiac rehabilitation in the UK

Health Policy

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-72

  Raine, Rosalind ^a   Hutchings, Andrew ^a   Black, Nick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Health care use; Horizontal and vertical equity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; THEORY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0037211656     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(02)00056-8     Document Type: Article

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