Markers of Access to and Quality of Primary Care for Aboriginal People in Ontario, Canada

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 798-802

  Shah, Baiju R ^a,b   Gunraj, Nadia ^a   Hux, Janet E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ACUTE DISEASE; AMERICAN INDIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CENSUSES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0037642233     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.5.798     Document Type: Article

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