Health 'care' interventions: Making health inequalities worse, not better?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 502-512

  Hart, Angie ^a   Freeman, Marnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Inequalities in health care; Inverse care law; Nursing; Professional ego; Psychosocial health inequalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGO; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; MODEL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHODYNAMICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CULTURE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSING CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 14844357290     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03357.x     Document Type: Article

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