Doctors' strikes and mortality: A review

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1784-1788

  Cunningham, Solveig Argeseanu ^a   Mitchell, Kristina ^b   Venkat Narayan, K M ^a   Yusuf, Salim ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doctors; Health care; Mortality; Review; Slowdown; Strikes

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CONFLICT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; TRADE UNION;

HUMANS; MORTALITY; PHYSICIANS; STRIKES, EMPLOYEE;

EID: 54549106571     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.044     Document Type: Article

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