Healthcare-seeking patterns among immigrants in Portugal

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 514-521

  Dias, Sónia ^a   Gama, Ana ^a   Cortes, Maria ^a   de Sousa, Bruno ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Emergency services; Migrants; Primary Health Care services; Use of health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 79960741636     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2011.00996.x     Document Type: Article

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