Understanding place and health: A heuristic for using administrative data

Health and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-309

  Frohlich, Katherine L ^a,b   Dunn, James R ^c,d   McLaren, Lindsay ^e   Shiell, Alan ^e   Potvin, Louise ^a,b   Hawe, Penelope ^e   Dassa, Clément ^a,b   Thurston, Wilfreda E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b IRSPUM   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Health and place; Theory

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HEURISTICS; RESEARCH; THEORY;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33846341080     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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