Gaceta Sanitaria

ISSN: 0213-9111

Gaceta Sanitaria is the official scientific journal of the Sociedad Española de Salud Publica y Administración Sanitaria (Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration) (SESPAS).

Gaceta Sanitaria accepts and publishes articles in Spanish and English. It is an open access journal. All of its articles are freely available without charge and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.

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4.7

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0.521

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1.006

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Carta al Director

Population versus hospital controls and the lost opportunities

Controles poblacionales frente a hospitalarios y oportunidades perdidas

Alberto Ruano-Ravinaa,

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alberto.ruano@usc.es

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, M.. Mónica Pérez-Ríosb, J.M.. Juan M. Barros-Diosc

a Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galician Agency for Health Technology Assessment, Galician Health Service; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, (CIBERESP), Spain

b Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain

c Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP); Preventive Medicine Unit, Santiago de Compostela University Teaching Hospital, Spain

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ISSN: 02139111
Original language: Spanish

DOI:10.1016/j.gaceta.2009.04.005

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