Social capital, community size and utilization of health services: A lagged analysis

Health Policy

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-46

  Nauenberg, Eric ^a   Laporte, Audrey ^a   Shen, Leilei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health status; Social capital; Urban; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 80054782949     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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