Erschienen in:
09.05.2018 | Concise Research Reports
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
verfasst von:
William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA, Mariétou H. L. Ouayogodé, PhD, James N. Weinstein, DO, MS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2018
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Excerpt
While geographic variation in Medicare health services utilization and costs has been studied for decades, recent work has suggested that community-level social determinants of health
1—including local economic activity
2,3—might explain geographically defined disparities in health service utilization and outcomes. …