Avoiding the danger that stop smoking services may exacerbate health inequalities: Building equity into performance assessment

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Low, Allan ^a   Unsworth, Louise ^b   Low, Anne ^a   Miller, Iain ^b  

^a County Durham Primary Care Trust ^*

^b Durham Dales Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENGLAND; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 34548446304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-198     Document Type: Review

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