The quality of preventive health care delivered to adults: Results from a cross-sectional study in Southern Italy

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Manuti, Benedetto ^a   Rizza, Paolo ^a   Bianco, Aida ^a   Nobile, Carmelo G A ^a   Pavia, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953632972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-350     Document Type: Article

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