Regional Variations in Health Status

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 879-888

  Au, David H ^a,b   McDonell, Mary B ^a   Martin, Donald C ^a,b   Fihn, Stephan D ^a,b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health status; Medical geography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 0035430629     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200108000-00013     Document Type: Article

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