Rural American Indian medicaid health care services use and health care costs in California

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 363-370

  Wong, Sabrina T ^a   Kao, Chi ^a   Crouch, James A ^b   Korenbrot, Carol C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Rural Indian Health Board   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALASKA; CALIFORNIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 31544469475     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.050880     Document Type: Article

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