Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Affluence-Poverty Nexus

Advances in Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-82

  Cooper, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POVERTY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961204491     PISSN: 00653411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yasu.2011.03.004     Document Type: Review

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