Rural-To-Urban Migrants' experiences with primary care under different types of medical institutions in Guangzhou, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Zeng, Jiazhi ^a   Shi, Leiyu ^a,b   Zou, Xia ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Ling, Li ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; FAMILY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MIGRANT; MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84949519776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140922     Document Type: Article

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