Reaching those with the greatest need: How Australian primary health care service managers, practitioners and funders understand and respond to health inequity

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 355-361

  Freeman, Toby ^a   Baum, Fran ^a   Lawless, Angela ^a   Jolley, Gwyn ^a   Labonte, Ronald ^b   Bentley, Michael ^a   Boffa, John ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Central Australian Aboriginal Congress   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; DEPARTMENTAL FUNDER; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT MANAGED SERVICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MANAGER; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH SERVICE MANAGER; REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 82155192240     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: 18367399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY11033     Document Type: Article

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