Do place of residence and ethnicity affect health services utilization? evidence from greece
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Do place of residence and ethnicity affect health services utilization? evidence from greece
BACKGROUND Equal utilization of health services for equal need, is one of the main targets for public health systems. Given the public-private structure of the Greek NHS, the main aim of the study was to investigate the impact of underlying factors, such as health care needs, socio-demographic characteristics and ethnicity, on the utilization of primary and hospital health care in an urban and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-16