Equity in distribution of health care resources; assessment of need and access, using three practical indicators

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1299-1308

  Omrani Khoo, Habib ^a,b   Lotfi, Farhad ^c   Safari, Hossein ^a   Zargar Balaye Jame, Sanaz ^a   Moghri, Javad ^a   Shafii, Milad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BUSHEHR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concentration index; Equity; Gini coefficient; Lorenz curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888120728     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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