A geographic assessment of 'total' health care supply in Ontario: Complementary and alternative medicine and conventional medicine

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-122

  Meyer, Stephen P ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Health care; Medical geography; Physicians

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SERVICE PROVISION; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77749258370     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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