RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The accessibility of primary care to urban patients: a geographical analysis
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 160
OP 168
VO 29
IS 200
A1 P. L. Knox
YR 1979
UL http://bjgp.org/content/29/200/160.abstract
AB Techniques of analysis now used in geography can be applied to general practice. They show that the locations of general practitioners' premises are not randomly distributed and are not related to the sites of populations or to patients in greatest need of medical services. The findings suggest a concentration of surgeries in middle class areas and lack of surgeries in areas of low social class.