Do California counties with lower socioeconomic levels have less access to emergency department care?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 508-513

  Ravikumar, Deepa ^a   Hsia, Renee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Access to emergency services; Emergency departments per capita; Health policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 77953601923     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00734.x     Document Type: Article

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