ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2008
Deprivation, demography, and the distribution of general practice: challenging the conventional wisdom of inverse care.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Population characteristics and geographic coverage of primary care facilities.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Distribution of optometric practices relative to deprivation index in Scotland.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
- Factors associated with consultation rates in general practice in England, 2013-2014: a cross-sectional study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
- Utilization of primary and secondary medical care among disadvantaged populations: a log-linear model analysis.Global journal of health science · 2014Article
- The rise of the medical McJob: why we should turn the clock back.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009Article
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Abstract
It is generally believed that the most deprived populations have the worst access to primary care. Lord Darzi's review of the NHS responds to this conventional wisdom and makes a number of proposals for improving the supply of GP services in deprived communities. This paper argues that these proposals are based on an incomplete understanding of inverse care which underestimates the degree to which, relative to their healthcare needs, older populations experience low availability of primary care. Many deprived practices appear to have a better match between need and supply than practices serving affluent but ageing populations. However, practices serving the oldest and most deprived populations have the worst availability of all.
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