Primary health care use from the perspective of gender and morbidity burden

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carretero, María Teresa ^a   Calderón Larrañaga, Amaia ^a,b,c,d   Poblador Plou, Beatriz ^b,c,d   Prados Torres, Alexandra ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO ARAGONÉS DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gender; Morbidity burden; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OFFICE VISITS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964696235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12905-014-0145-2     Document Type: Article

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