New Zealand's Primary Health Care Strategy: What are the costs and how likely are the benefits?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1173, 2003, Pages

  Raymont, Antony ^a   Cumming, Jacqueline ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; BUDGET; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL FEE; NEW ZEALAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEW ZEALAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0038322337     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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