Regulation versus practice - The impact of accessibility on the use of specialist health care in Norway

Health Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1231-1238

  Iversen, Tor ^a   Kopperud, Gry Stine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Pfizer AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Equity; Private public provision; Specialist health services; Survey data; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; LAW; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NORWAY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 29544448333     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1009     Document Type: Article

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