Insular pathways to health care in the city: A multilevel analysis of access to hospital care in urban Kerala, India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 802-814

  Levesque, Jean Frédéric ^a,b,d   Haddad, Slim ^b   Narayana, Delampady ^c   Fournier, Pierre ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

^d Unite de Sante Internationale   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Developing countries; India; Multilevel analysis; Poverty; Urban health services

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; POVERTY; PUBLIC ACCESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; URBAN HEALTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34347211758     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01870.x     Document Type: Article

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