"If you want to sit on your butts you'll get nothing!" Community activism in response to threats of rural hospital closure in southern New Zealand

Health and Place

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 59-71

  Barnett, Ross ^a   Barnett, Pauline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community action; Restructuring; Rural hospitals

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; RURAL AREA; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; NEW ZEALAND; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; THREAT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0037660423     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(02)00019-9     Document Type: Article

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