A qualitative examination of health and health care utilization after the september 11th terror attacks among world trade center health registry enrollees

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Welch, Alice E ^a   Caramanica, Kimberly ^a   Debchoudhury, Indira ^a   Pulizzi, Allison ^a   Farfel, Mark R ^a   Stellman, Steven D ^a,b   Cone, James E ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to care; Focus groups; Health care utilization; World Trade Center Health Registry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTER; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTRIES; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865546555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-721     Document Type: Article

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