Health professional shortage areas, insurance status, and cardiovascular disease prevention in the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1179-1189

  Brown, Todd M ^a   Parmar, Gaurav ^b   Durant, Raegan W ^c   Halanych, Jewell H ^c   Hovater, Martha ^b   Muntner, Paul ^b   Prineas, Ronald J ^d   Roth, David L ^b   Samdarshi, Tandaw E ^e   Safford, Monika M ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UAB   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Health professional shortage areas; Insurance status; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255188597     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2011.0127     Document Type: Article

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