Accessing Health Care

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 521-539

  Ricketts, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access as "fit" among resources, need, and demand; Access concept serving as a symbol for arguments for justice and equity; Access indicators used in population surveys in American context; Accessing health care; Aggregate geographic accessibility in organization and planning of health systems; Alternative theories access as "fit" in theory and practice; Andersen model of access; Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP); Population level consideration and relationship between access and population health outcomes; Questioning access theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883810633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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