Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 198, Issue , 2018, Pages 148-156

  Cookson, R ^a   Asaria, M ^a   Ali, S ^a   Shaw, R ^b   Doran, T ^a   Goldblatt, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Analytical Insight Resource Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; Health equity; Quality indicators; Small area analysis; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP; COMMUNITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INEQUALITY; MEDICAL SERVICE; NATIONAL INEQUALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; POTENTIALLY AVOIDABLE EMERGENCY ADMISSION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMBULATORY CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENGLAND; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 85040321960     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.004     Document Type: Article

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