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Influence of Municipality-Level Mean Income on Access to Aortic Valve Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study under Japan's Universal Health-Care Coverage

BACKGROUND: Universal health-care coverage has attracted the interest of policy makers as a way of achieving health equity. However, previous reports have shown that despite universal coverage, socioeconomic disparity persists in access to high-tech invasive care, such as cardiac treatment. In this...

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Autores principales: Lee, Seitetsu L., Hashimoto, Hideki, Kohro, Takahide, Horiguchi, Hiromasa, Koide, Daisuke, Komuro, Issei, Fushimi, Kiyohide, Yamazaki, Tsutomu, Yasunaga, Hideo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111071