Health care expenditures for urban and rural veterans in veterans health administration care

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1718-1734

  West, Alan N ^a,b   Weeks, William B ^b,c  

^a White River Junction VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Expenditures; Rural; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 69749127235     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00988.x     Document Type: Article

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