Socioeconomic determinants of access to health services among older adults: a systematic review

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 51, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Almeida, Ana Paula Santana Coelho ^a,b   Nunes, Bruno Pereira ^b   Duro, Suele Manjourany Silva ^b   Facchini, Luiz Augusto ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Federal de Pelotas Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged. health services accessibility; Health inequalities; Health systems; Review; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY PATIENT; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHEST INCOME GROUP; HOME VISIT; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCOME GROUP; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDLINE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORTUGUESE (LANGUAGE); SELECTION BIAS; SOCIOECONOMIC PARAMETERS; SPANISH (LANGUAGE); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WEB OF SCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INCOME; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE;

EID: 85021859661     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1518-8787.2017051006661     Document Type: Article

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