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FUNCTIONAL COVERAGE [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

Functional coverage is characterized by the "catchment areas" of the health institutions, which in turn are defined in terms of the utilization of health institutions by the population (passive coverage) and of the penetration into the population by mobile elements of the health institution or the radius along which population is contacted (active coverage).

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

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