Equality or equity in health care access: A qualitative study of doctors' explanations to a longer doctor's delay among female TB patients in Vietnam

Health Policy

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-46

  Thorson, A ^a   Johansson, E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Delay; Equity; Gender; Tuberculosis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIET NAM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIETNAM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 1642345422     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2003.07.010     Document Type: Article

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