Institutional and economic determinants of public health system performance

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 523-531

  Mays, Glen P ^a   McHugh, Megan C ^b   Shim, Kyumin ^b   Perry, Natalie ^b   Lenaway, Dennis ^b   Halverson, Paul K ^b   Moonesinghe, Ramal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DECISION MAKING; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STAFF;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33644635424     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.064253     Document Type: Article

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