Poor Prescriptions: Poverty and Access to Community Health Services
- ISBN-10
- 1905485425
- ISBN-13
- 9781905485420
- Category
- Community health services
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Combat Poverty Agency
- Authors
- Brian Nolan, Anne Nolan, Richard Layte
Description
... that there is little variation in GP visiting rates across the country, ranging from a low of 17.9% of the population with at least one GP visit in the previous two weeks in Dublin to 21.7% of the population in the mid-west.
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