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Developing rural primary health care service areas: an analysis of patient migration patterns
Adam Atherly1, John Kralewski, Christopher Johnson
1Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Health Care Management Review
|May 15, 2003
Abstract:
This study explores the potential of health care service areas (HCSAs) developed from claims data as the geopolitical units for the assessment of health professional needs in rural areas. HCSAs reflect consumer shopping patterns for health care and alter traditional health professional needs estimates.