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Informal Access to Specialist Care in a Universal Health-Care System: The Role of Healthcare Sector Ties

2026-06-16

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Informal access to specialist care through personal connections may help patients navigate slow or difficult referral pathways but it may also signal inequity in practical access. In universal healthcare systems, such informal access raises an important question: whether socioeconomic advantage operates directly or partly through healthcare-specific social capital, defined...

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75f215b1-e4a9-5a50-a369-996afd20f947
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9695476/v1
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