Accessibility and health service utilization for asthma in Norfolk, England
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Health service accessibility and deaths from asthma.
BACKGROUND Good access to health services may be important for effective asthma management amongst patients, thus preventing unnecessary deaths. In a previous study, we found elevated levels of asthma mortality in English local authority districts with poor access to acute hospitals. Here, the relationship between asthma mortality and access to primary and secondary services within the rural re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024774