Access, choice and travel: Implications for health policy

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 267-287

  Exworthy, Mark ^a   Peckham, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Health policy; Patient choice; Willingness to travel

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748767366     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2006.00489.x     Document Type: Review

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