Predictors of preventive service use among medicare beneficiaries

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 5-23

  Ozminkowski, Ronald J ^a,b   Goetzel, Ron Z ^a   Shechter, David ^b   Stapleton, David C ^a   Baser, Onur ^b   Lapin, Pauline ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b MEDSTAT GROUP   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBESITY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VISION TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646948627     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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