Geographic methods for health services research : a focus on the rural-urban continuum / edited by Thomas C. Ricketts ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 325318
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1994
- 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0819195324 (alkaline paper)
- 0819195332 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Introduction / John Florin
- Ch. 2. A Focus on Rural and Regional Health Care Delivery / Thomas C. Ricketts. Point of Departure: Population Density and Research / Diana N. Osborne and Lucy A. Savitz
- Ch. 3. Changes and Measures in the Crucial Dimension of Population / Melinda Meade. Point of Departure: Data Sources for Health Services Research / Lucy A. Savitz and Lise K. Fondren
- Ch. 4. Access to Health Services / Thomas C. Ricketts and Lucy A. Savitz. Point of Departure: Access and Cartography / Lucy A. Savitz and Don Albert
- Ch. 5. Health Professions Distributions / Wilbert M. Gesler and Lucy A. Savitz. Point of Departure: Community-Based Measures of Underservice / Thomas C. Ricketts. Point of Departure: Tracking Doctors into the Twenty-First Century / Thomas R. Konrad
- Ch. 6. Regionalization of Health Care / John Florin, Wilbert M. Gesler, Lucy A. Savitz and Lise K. Fondren. Point of Departure: Rural Places and Regionalization / John Florin.
- Point of Departure: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Don Albert
- Ch. 7. Methods for Defining Medical Service Areas / Kit Simpson, Susan DesHarnais, Anne Jacobs and Adrian Menapace. Point of Departure: Hospital Closure and Access to Hospital Services / John Lowe
- Ch. 8. Contagious Diseases / Susan Cohn, Laura Moorhead, Melinda Meade and Don Albert. Point of Departure: Adjustment of Tuberculosis Incidence Rates / Peter S. Millard
- Ch. 9. Evaluating Clusters of Adverse Health Outcomes / Timothy Aldrich, Lucy A. Savitz and Peggy Wittie. Point of Departure: State Cancer Control Map and Data Program Analyses / Forrest Pommerenke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-358) and index.
- Subject:
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- Rural health services -- Research -- Methodology
- Rural health services -- Maps
- Medical geography -- Methodology
- Medical geography -- Maps
- Rural health services -- United States -- Research -- Methodology
- Rural health services -- United States -- Maps
- Medical geography -- United States -- Methodology
- Medical geography -- United States -- Maps
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ricketts, Thomas C
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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