High-quality health care: The essential route to eliminating disparities and achieving health equity

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1868-1871

  Beal, Anne C ^a  

^a AETNA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RACE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855993953     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0976     Document Type: Article

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