How fair is fair access to care?

Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 235-249

  Newton, Jennifer ^a   Browne, Leanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Access; Adult social care; Charging; Equity; FACS; Rationing

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549090200     PISSN: 09503153     EISSN: 17424909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09503150802532305     Document Type: Article

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