Cumulative adverse financial circumstances: Associations with patient health status and behaviors

Health and Social Work

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-137

  Bisgaier, Joanna ^a   Rhodes, Karin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department patients; Financial well being; Health behaviors; Social determinants of health; Social health risk screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79960032649     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/36.2.129     Document Type: Review

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