Access to primary health care: Three challenges to equity

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 21-29

  Harris, Mark Fort ^a   Harris, Elizabeth ^a,b   Roland, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Equality; General practice; Inequality; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW;

EID: 11844294887     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/py04043     Document Type: Review

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