Health care use and the Canadian immigrant population

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 545-565

  Newbold, K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LIFESTYLE; POPULATION DECLINE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69549114232     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: 15414469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/HS.39.3.g     Document Type: Article

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