Assessing the health benefits of advice services: Using research evidence and logic model methods to explore complex pathways

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-68

  Allmark, Peter ^a   Baxter, Susan ^b   Goyder, Elizabeth ^b   Guillaume, Louise ^b   Crofton Martin, Gerard ^c  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Citizens Advice Staffordshire North Stoke on Trent   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health inequalities; Logic model; Poverty; Primary care; Social determinants of health; Welfare benefits

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84870679191     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2012.01087.x     Document Type: Article

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