Medicaid outpatient utilization for waterborne pathogenic illness following Hurricane Floyd

Public Health Reports

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 472-478

  Setzer, Christian ^a,b   Domino, Marisa Elena ^c  

^a Houston Dept of Hlth/Hum Serv   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISASTER; FLOODING; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OUTPATIENT CARE; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UNITED STATES; AGRICULTURE; AMBULATORY CARE; ANIMAL; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ECONOMICS; GASTROENTERITIS; GIARDIASIS; GOVERNMENT; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SWINE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; AGRICULTURE; AMBULATORY CARE; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; GASTROENTERITIS; GIARDIASIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; NATURAL DISASTERS; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 4544221750     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phr.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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