Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling
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Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling
BACKGROUND In data commonly used for health services research, a number of relevant variables are unobservable. These include population lifestyle and socio-economic status, physician practice behaviors, population tendency to use health care resources, and disease prevalence. These variables may be considered latent constructs of many observed variables. Using health care data from South Carol...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-8-51