Does Council Tax Valuation Band (CTVB) correlate with Under-Privileged Area 8 (UPA8) score and could it be a better 'Jarman index'?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-3

  Beale, Norman ^a   Taylor, Gordon ^b   Straker Cook, Dawn ^a  

^a Northlands R and D General Practice   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAX; UNITED KINGDOM; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; STATE MEDICINE; TAXES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 18744380663     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-1-13     Document Type: Article

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