Geographic distribution of need and access to health care in rural population: An ecological study in Iran

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar ^a,b,c   Najafi, Behzad ^c,d   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ARDABIL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Equality; Gini Index; Index of Dissimilarity; Iran; Rural Health Houses

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; IRAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

IRAN;

EID: 80053174244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-39     Document Type: Article

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