Geographic Methods for Health Services Research: A Focus on the Rural-Urban Continuum

Ricketts, Thomas C.; Savitz, Lucy A.; Gesler, Wilbert M.

ISBN 10: 0819195332 ISBN 13: 9780819195333

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Amer, 1994

Riassunto

This book is intended to demonstrate the application of analytic geography and cartographic techniques in health services research. Applications of these methods in identifying the problems encountered in the analysis and distribution of disease, various health indicators, and health care resources are depicted and interpreted.

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L'autore:

Thomas C. Ricketts is Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Service Research. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy & Administration, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. Lucy A. Savitz is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Wilbert M. Gesler is an Associate Professor of Geography at the same university.

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• Editore: Univ Pr of Amer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0819195332
• ISBN 13: 9780819195333
• Rilegatura: Libro di testo
• Numero di pagine: 396