Greek rural gps' opinions on how financial crisis influences health, quality of care and health equity

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tsiligianni, I ^a   Anastasiou, F ^a   Antonopoulou, M ^a   Chliveros, K ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, S ^a   Duijker, G ^a   Kounalakis, D ^a   Makri, K ^a   Petraki, C ^a   Prokopiadou, D ^a   Stefanaki, I ^a   Symvoulakis, E ^a   Tsakountakis, N ^a   Vasilopoulos, T ^a   Vittorakis, C ^a   Lionis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GREECE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; GREECE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84877890552     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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