Health plans and purchasers: Managing women's primary care

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 9, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1999, Pages 15S-25S

  Gonen, Julianna S ^a  

^a Jacobs Institute for Women's Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLICATION; PURCHASING; REVIEW;

EID: 0345561612     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-3867(98)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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