Healthy Young Adults: Description and Use of an Innovative Health Insurance Program

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 350-356

  Rising, Joshua P ^a   Colon Hopkins, Claire ^b   Neumann, Alicia ^c,d   Kaiser, Ellen ^b   Lange, Dori ^b   Thaw, Robyn ^b   Katz, Mitchell H ^a,d   Fuentes Afflick, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b San Francisco Health Plan   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 34548576765     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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