Structural and hidden barriers to a local primary health care infrastructure: Autonomy, decisions about primary health care, and the centrality and significance of power

Research in the Sociology of Health Care

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-81

  Freed, Christopher R ^a   Hansberry, Shantisha T ^a   Arrieta, Martha I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Decisions; Health disparities; Infrastructure; Local primary health care; Power; Structural and hidden barriers

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE; FEAR; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 84956602595     PISSN: 02754959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0275-4959(2013)0000031006     Document Type: Article

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