Use of cross-border healthcare services among ethnic Danes, Turkish immigrants and Turkish descendants in Denmark: A combined survey and registry study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nielsen, Signe Smith ^a   Yazici, Suzan ^b   Petersen, Signe Gronwald ^a   Blaakilde, Anne Leonora ^a   Krasnik, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Cross border; Denmark; Descendant; Healthcare utilization; Medical tourism; Medicine; Migrant; Patient safety; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENMARK; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; REGISTER; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DENMARK; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SAFETY; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868649454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-390     Document Type: Review

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