Income inequality and self rated health in Chile;Inequidad de ingreso y autopercepción de salud: Un análisis desde la perspectiva contextual en las comunas chilenas

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-330

  Subramanian, Venkata ^a   Delgado B, Iris ^a   Jadue H, Liliana ^a,b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Vega M, Jeanette ^a,b  

^a Dept Hlth Hum Behaviour H ^*  (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Health care evaluation mechanisms; Health care quality, access and evaluation; Income

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEAR SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0038342842     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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