Measuring health inequalities in Albania: A focus on the distribution of general practitioners

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^a,b,c,d   Mantzavinis, Georgios D ^c,d   Rrumbullaku, Llukan ^e   Lionis, Christos ^a   Trell, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b State Mental Health Hospital of Chania   (Greece)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Cretan Mental Health Services Coordination Centre   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONSULTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

EID: 33644834194     PISSN: 14784491     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-4-5     Document Type: Article

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