Patients, practitioners, and paradoxes: Responses to the cuban health crisis of the 1990s

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1384-1400

  Jenkins, Tania M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative and complementary; Cuba; Cubans; Health care; Health policy; Medicine

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CUBA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CUBA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIANS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 52349094931     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308322601     Document Type: Article

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