Small-area estimation of health insurance coverage for California legislative districts

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 731-737

  Yu, Hongjian ^a,b   Meng, Ying Ying ^a   Mendez Luck, Carolyn A ^a   Jhawar, Mona ^a   Wallace, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LAW; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947501340     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.077743     Document Type: Article

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