Measuring and decomposing the inequality of maternal health services utilization in Western Rural China

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Xiaoning ^a,b   Gao, Wenlong ^a,b   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Maternal health care utilization; Rural Western China; Socioeconomic inequality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898843699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-102     Document Type: Article

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