Managing competition in the countryside: Non-profit and for-profit perceptions of long-term care in rural Ontario

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2864-2876

  Skinner, Mark W ^a   Rosenberg, Mark W ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; For profit; Long term care; Managed competition; Non profit; Rural and small town

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIALIZATION; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL SOCIETY;

ARTICLE; CANADA; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOME CARE; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; PROFIT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

AGED; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ONTARIO; RURAL POPULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33750040290     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.07.028     Document Type: Article

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