The effect of socioeconomic status on access to primary care: an audit study

ME Olah, G Gaisano, SW Hwang - Cmaj, 2013 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Health care office staff and providers may discriminate against people of low
socioeconomic status, even in the absence of economic incentives to do so. We sought to …

Socio-economic status and visits to physicians by adults in Ontario, Canada

W McLsaac, V Goel, D Naylor - Journal of Health Services …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To examine the association between socio-economic status, need for medical
care and visits to physicians in a universal health insurance system. Methods: Cross …

Socio-economic status and the utilisation of physicians' services: results from the Canadian National Population Health Survey

S Dunlop, PC Coyte, W McIsaac - Social science & medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the extent to which Canada's universal health care system has
eliminated socio-economic barriers in the use of physician services by examining the role of …

Association between general practice referral rates and patients' socioeconomic status and access to specialised health care: A population-based nationwide study

TH Sørensen, KR Olsen, P Vedsted - Health policy, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To explore the association between patients' socioeconomic status and their
referral from general practice to specialised health care. METHODS: Multiple regression …

Socioeconomic status and utilization of health care services in Canada and the United States: findings from a binational health survey

DL Blackwell, ME Martinez, JF Gentleman… - Medical care, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Building on Andersen's behavioral model for the utilization of health care
services, we examined factors associated with utilization of physician and hospital services …

Do factors other than need determine utilization of physicians' services in Ontario?

MM Finkelstein - Cmaj, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Universal health care systems seek to ensure access to care on the basis of
need, rather than income, but there are concerns about preferential access to cardiovascular …

Insurance, race/ethnicity, and sex in the search for a new physician

R Sharma, A Mitra, M Stano - Economics Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We employed simulated patient calls to a national random sample of primary care
physicians to assess appointment availability for adults who differed by insurance …

Socioeconomic differences in the use of physician services in Nova Scotia.

G Kephart, VS Thomas… - American Journal of …, 1998 - ajph.aphapublications.org
OBJECTIVES: Socioeconomic differences in use of physician services in Nova Scotia,
Canada were examined. METHODS: The study was based on survey data, containing …

Is general practitioner decision making associated with patient socio-economic status?

A Scott, A Shiell, M King - Social science & medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper presents a preliminary exploration into the relationship between decisions made
by general practitioners (GPs) and the socio-economic status (SES) of patients. There is a …

Pursuing equity: contact with primary care and specialist clinicians by demographics, insurance, and health status

RL Ferrer - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2007 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Long-term shifts in specialty choice and health workforce policy have raised
concern about the future of primary care in the United States. The objective of this study was …