Brown, Laurie J.; Barnett, J. Ross - In: Social Science & Medicine 35 (1992) 9, pp. 1157-1170
This paper undertakes both a macro- and micro-scale analysis of the influences exerted by the health care system on patterns of hospitalization. The health disorder of diabetes mellitus is used as the case study and the analyses are based on New Zealand data sets. The article first examines the...