Journal article
How significant are the spatial configurations of health care systems?
Abstract
After briefly reviewing some of the problems of examining 'the spatial', this paper sets out to demonstrate the importance of examining spatial configurations of health care systems. It isolates major ordering principles for understanding such systems, namely the level of economic development, political structure and ideology, and allocational mechanism. It then assesses the role of 'the spatial' in terms of system differentiation (e.g. …
Authors
Eyles J
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 157–164
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 1990
DOI
10.1016/0277-9536(90)90338-s
ISSN
0277-9536