Quality of care and its impact on population health: A cross-sectional study from Macedonia

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2216-2224

  Peabody, John W ^a   Nordyke, Robert J ^b   Tozija, Fimka ^c   Luck, Jeff ^b   Muñoz, Jorge A ^d   Sunderland, Anne ^e   DeSalvo, Karen ^f   Ponce, Ninez ^b   McCulloch, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^d Instituto de Previsión Social de la Fuerza Armada   (El Salvador)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national comparative research; Health outcomes; International health services; Population health status; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; HEALTH AND DISEASE; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644926675     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.10.030     Document Type: Article

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