Care Need Index, a useful tool for the distribution of primary health care resources
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Care Need Index, a useful tool for the distribution of primary health care resources.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how Care Need Index (CNI), a social deprivation index, may be used to allocate total primary health care resources. DESIGN Cross sectional survey and register data. The CNI was based on sociodemographic factors: elderly persons living alone, children under age 5, unemployed people, people with low educational status, single parents, high mobility, and foreign bo...
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Study objective: To demonstrate how Care Need Index (CNI), a social deprivation index, may be used to allocate total primary health care resources. Design: Cross sectional survey and register data. The CNI was based on sociodemographic factors: elderly persons living alone, children under age 5, unemployed people, people with low educational status, single parents, high mobility, and foreign bo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.5.347