Use of health care services by ethnic minorities in The Netherlands: Do patterns differ?

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 388-393

  Uiters, Ellen ^a   Devillé, Walter L J M ^a   Foets, Marleen ^b   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; General practice; Health service utilisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; SURINAME; TURKEY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33748134262     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckl040     Document Type: Review

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