The impact of rural health care accessibility on cancer-related behaviors and outcomes

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 461-470

  Belasco, Eric J ^a   Gong, Gordon ^b   Pence, Barbara ^b   Wilkes, Ethan ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84905117825     PISSN: 11755652     EISSN: 11791896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40258-014-0099-4     Document Type: Article

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