Evaluation of a pilot cooperative medical scheme in rural China: Impact on gender patterns of health care utilization and prescription practices

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jiang, Qicheng ^a   Jiang, Zhen ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a   Tao, Jie ^a   Ling, Chunsun ^a   Cherry, Nicola ^b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; STEROID;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEROIDS; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

EID: 78751642509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-50     Document Type: Article

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