Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Unmet Needs and Distribution of Health Care Resources in South Korea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Heo, Jongho ^a,b   Oh, Juwhan ^c   Kim, Jukyung ^d   Lee, Manwoo ^d   Lee, Jin seok ^c   Kwon, Soonman ^c   Subramanian, S V ^e   Kawachi, Ichiro ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d National Assembly Research Service   (South Korea)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84870607635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051004     Document Type: Article

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