Trends in rural and urban differentials in incidence rates for ruptured appendicitis under the National Health Insurance in Taiwan

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1055-1063

  Huang, N ^a   Yip, W ^b   Chang, H J ^a   Chou, Y J ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Rural heath; Universal healthcare system

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; RURAL POPULATION; SERVICE PROVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TAIWAN; URBAN HEALTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33750029035     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.06.011     Document Type: Article

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