Done more for me in a fortnight than anybody done in all me life. How welfare rights advice can help people with cancer

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Moffatt, Suzanne ^a   Noble, Emma ^a   Exley, Catherine ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; COUNSELING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; PATIENT RIGHT; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST OF ILLNESS; COUNSELING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT RIGHTS; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956473493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-259     Document Type: Article

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