Attendance for general practitioner asthma care by children with moderate to severe asthma in Auckland, New Zealand

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1831-1842

  Buetow, Stephen ^a   Richards, Deborah ^a   Mitchell, Ed ^a   Gribben, Barry ^a   Adair, Vivienne ^a   Coster, Gregor ^a   Hight, Makere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Ethnicity; Health services utilisation; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILD HEALTH; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUCKLAND; AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 4143102511     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.02.025     Document Type: Article

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