Association of socio-economic status with diabetes prevalence and utilization of diabetes care services

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rabi, Doreen M ^a,b   Edwards, Alun L ^a   Southern, Danielle A ^b   Svenson, Lawrence W ^c   Sargious, Peter M ^a   Norton, Peter ^a   Larsen, Eric T ^d   Ghali, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Alberta Health and Wellness   (Canada)

^d CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; CANADA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; INSURANCE; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ALBERTA; CENSUSES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM; SOCIAL CLASS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 33750209134     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-124     Document Type: Article

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