Health status and health service utilization in remote and mountainous areas in Vietnam

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tran, Bach Xuan ^a,b   Nguyen, Long Hoang ^c   Nong, Vuong Minh ^a   Nguyen, Cuong Tat ^d  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

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

^c VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d DUY TAN UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Health service; Mountainous; Quality of life; Remote; Self rated health; Utilization; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH STATUS; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PAIN; PATIENT DISCOMFORT; PATIENT MOBILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; VIET NAM; AGED; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85007504809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-016-0485-8     Document Type: Article

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