Should co-payments for financially deprived patients be lowered? Primary care physicians’ perspectives using a mixed-methods approach in a survey study in Tokyo

BACKGROUND: Japan’s stagnant economy has produced increasing income disparities, and the effect of poverty on health and health-care utilization is a significant issue. Co-payments could be a trade-off for patients when seeking medical care and limit health-care utilization. We sought primary care p...

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Autores principales: Inoue, Machiko, Kachi, Yuko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0534-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0534-x

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