High health care utilization and costs associated with lower socio-economic status: Results from a linked dataset

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 180-183

  Lemstra, Mark ^a   Mackenbach, Johan ^a,b   Neudorf, Cory ^a   Nannapaneni, Ushasri ^a  

^a SASKATOON HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delivery of health care; Economics; Socioeconomic factors; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SASKATCHEWAN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67649961173     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405536     Document Type: Article

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