The relationship between socio-economic factors and responsiveness gaps in primary, preventative and health promotion services

Health Expectations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2638-2650

  Zalmanovitch, Yair ^a   Vashdi, Dana R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Health policy; Health care access; Health care disparities; Responsiveness gap; Socio economic factors

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCOME; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84955187414     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12238     Document Type: Article

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