Delays and Unmet Need for Health Care among Adult Primary Care Patients in a Restructured Urban Public Health System

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 783-789

  Diamant, Allison L ^a,f   Hays, Ron D ^a,b   Morales, Leo S ^a,b   Ford, Wesley ^h   Calmes, Daphne ^e   Asch, Steven ^c   Duan, Naihua ^c   Fielder, Eve ^f   Kim, Sehyun ^g   Fielding, Jonathan ^d   Sumner, Gerald ^f   Shapiro, Martin F ^a,b   Hayes Bautista, David ^a   Gelberg, Lillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Veterans Administration   (United States)

^d LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^e CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CHA University   (South Korea)

^h Department of Preventive Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 2342420641     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.5.783     Document Type: Article

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