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Health service areas for the United States
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November 1991
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Description:"The objectives of this report are to document methods used to identify health service areas for the United States, and to describe and evaluate these areas. We define a health service area as one or more counties that are relatively self-contained with respect to the provision of routine hospital care. Service areas that include more than one county are characterized by travel between the counties for routine hospital care. We have assigned every county in the coterminous United States to a single service area that must have at least one hospital. The health service areas reflect current travel patterns between counties for routine hospital care. This project was motivated in part by a decision at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to consider health service areas as possible primary sampling units (PSUS) for the National Health Interview Survey (HIS). Another motivation was the need to use health service oreas as units of analysis to measure the availability of health care resources (for example, per capita physicians and hospital beds), to study geographic variation in health care use, and to study the relationship between health care resources, health care utilization, and health status. Before this project the most recently defined national health service areas were constructed using data that are now more than 20 years old. Thus, the new service areas will be a useful tool in conducting health services research." - p.1
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Content Notes:by Diane M, Makuc, Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics; Bengt Haglund, Uppsala University; Deborah D. Ingram, Joel C. Kleinman, and Jacob J. Feldman, Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).
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Pubmed ID:1808847
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Pages in Document:print; vi, 102 p. : maps ; 28 cm.
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Issue:112
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