The relevance of equity in health care for primary care: Creating and sustaining a 'fair go, for a fair innings'

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-54

  Ward, Paul R ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Equity of healthcare; Healthcare need; Healthcare utilisation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 63049104862     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: 14791064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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