Barriers to primary care responsiveness to poverty as a risk factor for health

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bloch, Gary ^a,b   Rozmovits, Linda ^c   Giambrone, Broden ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79959664071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-62     Document Type: Article

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