Poor access to care: Rural health deprivation?

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 529, 2006, Pages 567-568

  Baird, A Gordon ^a   Wright, Nat ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ALCOHOLISM; ANGIOPLASTY; ASTHMA; CANCER; CONTRACT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG ABUSE; EDITORIAL; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POVERTY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33747046060     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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