Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession: Disparities across race and ethnicity and geospatial factors

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue , 2017, Pages 30-44

  Towne, Samuel D ^a   Probst, Janice C ^b   Hardin, James W ^b   Bell, Bethany A ^b   Glover, Saundra ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Health and place; Health disparities; Recession; Rural health

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CENSUS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RACE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSURANCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL CARE; MONITORING; RACE; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ANCESTRY GROUP; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017540556     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.005     Document Type: Article

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