Socioeconomic variation in the burden of chronic conditions and health care provision - Analyzing administrative individual level data from the Basque Country, Spain

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Orueta, Juan F ^a,b   García Álvarez, Arturo ^c   Alonso Morán, Edurne ^a   Vallejo Torres, Laura ^d,e,f   Nuño Solinis, Roberto ^a  

^a Oberri (The Basque Institute for Health Innovation)   (Spain)

^b Centro de Salud La Paz   (Spain)

^c Kronikgune (The International Centre of Excellence in Research into Chronicity)   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^f Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Canarias CIBICAN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84884337699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-870     Document Type: Article

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