Primary care in a post-communist country 10 years later. Comparison of service profiles of Lithuanian primary care physicians in 1994 and GPs in 2004

Health Policy

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-113

  Liseckiene, Ida ^a   Boerma, Wienke G W ^b   Milasauskiene, Zemyna ^a   Valius, Leonas ^a   Miseviciene, Irena ^a   Groenewegen, Peter P ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; Evaluation studies; Family practice; Health care reform; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; LITHUANIA; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING;

COMMUNISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34447321544     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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