Multilevel modeling of regional variation in equity in health care

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 976-983

  Lumme, Sonja ^a   Leyland, Alastair H ^b   Keskimäki, Ilmo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health service research; Inequity; Multilevel models; Regional; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; REVASCULARIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POPULATION GROUPS; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 50949096384     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181791970     Document Type: Article

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