A cross-sectional, multi-year examination of rural and urban veterans administration users: 2002-2006

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 252-258

  Wallace, Amy E ^a,b   MacKenzie, Todd A ^b,c   Wright, Steven M ^d   Weeks, William B ^c  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VETERAN;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; URBAN POPULATION; VETERANS;

EID: 77953308025     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00048     Document Type: Article

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