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Defining and Targeting Health Care Access Barriers
- In: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- By: Carrillo JE, Carrillo VA, Perez HR, Salas-Lopez D, Natale-Pereira A, and Byron AT
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published: 5/1/2011
This study presents a model, the Health Care Access Barriers Model, which defines taxonomy and a practical framework for the classification, analysis and reporting of modifiable health care access barriers associated with health care disparities.
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