Need for and Access to Health Care and Medicines: Are There Gender Inequities?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wagner, Anita K ^a   Graves, Amy J ^a   Fan, Zhengyu ^a   Walker, Saul ^b   Zhang, Fang ^a   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UK Department for International Development   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874693320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057228     Document Type: Article

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