Providing Health Care

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 495-520

  Barnett, Ross ^a   Copeland, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to primary care reform and forces for change; Core areas of concern of past geographical analyses of formal health services; Geographical studies of health sector restructuring lack of global focus by geographers; Geography and health services research; National systems of health care provision providing health care; PHC gaining pivotal role in health care provision; Restructuring hospital systems; Rise of "PHC led" systems; Shifts in health policy and broader changes in welfare state; Traditional studies of health service delivery concerned with role of space and patterns of use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889480288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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