Use of preventive health care services among the unemployed in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 667-674

  Vončina, Luka ^a   Pristaš, Ivan ^b   Mastilica, Miroslav ^a   Polašek, Ozren ^a   Šošić, Zvonko ^a   Stevanović, Ranko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 35648932436     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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