Where students go when they are ill: How medical students access health care

Medical Education

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 588-593

  Hooper, Clare ^a,b   Meakin, Richard ^a   Jones, Melvyn ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude to health; Health care seeking behaviour *psychology; Questionnaires; Self care; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONSULTATION; FAMILY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; SELF CARE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF-EXAMINATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 20144367837     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02175.x     Document Type: Article

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