Immigrant status and unmet health care needs

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 369-373

  Wu, Zheng ^a   Penning, Margaret J ^a   Schimmele, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Health service needs; Immigration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 26844452560     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404035     Document Type: Article

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