Health Care Utilization and Attitudes to Health Care Before and After Development Work in a Health Centre
In development work at the Vännäs Primary Health Care Centre (VPHCC) in northern Sweden, attitudes towards and the use of health care were studied from 1977 to 1979. Mail questionnaires were sent to random and independent samples of Vännäs inhabitants to collect data. A relative increase in the heal...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/140349488901700213 2024-10-13T14:09:48+00:00 Health Care Utilization and Attitudes to Health Care Before and After Development Work in a Health Centre Westman, Güran Eriksson, Carl-Gunnar von Post, Hampus 1989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488901700213 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/140349488901700213 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine volume 17, issue 2, page 217-222 ISSN 0300-8037 journal-article 1989 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/140349488901700213 2024-10-01T04:08:54Z In development work at the Vännäs Primary Health Care Centre (VPHCC) in northern Sweden, attitudes towards and the use of health care were studied from 1977 to 1979. Mail questionnaires were sent to random and independent samples of Vännäs inhabitants to collect data. A relative increase in the health centre physician consultancy rate was found when it was compared to other health care facilities. No change was seen in hospital utilization. Attitudes towards health information and health care accessibility were more positive after the development work. No change in attitudes to quality of health care as such was seen. The changes implemented at the VPHCC seemed to be a major cause for the results obtained as no such change was seen in the catchment area of the reference health centre. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden SAGE Publications Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 17 2 217 222 |
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In development work at the Vännäs Primary Health Care Centre (VPHCC) in northern Sweden, attitudes towards and the use of health care were studied from 1977 to 1979. Mail questionnaires were sent to random and independent samples of Vännäs inhabitants to collect data. A relative increase in the health centre physician consultancy rate was found when it was compared to other health care facilities. No change was seen in hospital utilization. Attitudes towards health information and health care accessibility were more positive after the development work. No change in attitudes to quality of health care as such was seen. The changes implemented at the VPHCC seemed to be a major cause for the results obtained as no such change was seen in the catchment area of the reference health centre. |
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Health Care Utilization and Attitudes to Health Care Before and After Development Work in a Health Centre |
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