Health insurance and access to health care in the United States

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1136, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-160

  Hoffman, Catherine ^a,b   Paradise, Julia ^a  

^a Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Health insurance; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DENTAL CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POVERTY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45549098288     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1425.007     Document Type: Review

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