The research was published in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs.
The study is one of the first drill down to census tract data to determine ratios and consider how geography may create barriers to care within city neighborhoods.
“Primary care is the gateway to improved health outcomes and forms the base of efficient health systems,” said Elizabeth J. Brown, the Harrington Clinician Scholar at Christiana Care’s Value Institute and a primary care physician with Christiana Care’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. “Considering the results of our study, policymakers may consider how accessible primary care is, even in densely-populated neighborhoods, when assessing ways to improve the health of our communities.”
Whereas most research on doctor-to-population ratios has concentrated on those ratios at the city, county or state level, the study in Health Affairs analyzed census tracts.
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I call BS,those Medical Assistance vans are all over the place.
ReplyDeleteWho in his/her right mind wants to set up a practice in an area like that?
ReplyDeleteThey have as much access as any other person. They either don't seek help, want hand out, don't want to work to pay for it. There are many middle class families who are in the same boat who struggle to pay for it, but do the best they can. Some don't go cause they can't afford it. This is a BS article
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ReplyDeleteWhere should they work?
Who is hiring?
Witch doctor?
ReplyDeleteObama fixed this 8 years ago. Just ask him if you don't believe me.
ReplyDeleteWhen the police try to make the neighborhood safe they get attacked by the Democrat media.
ReplyDeletewhen the thugs stop robbing the pharmacies and doctors office's and patients coming or going, then MAYBE some doctor would risk HIS LIFE.
ReplyDeleteMaybe....
I don't believe this either. They have just as much access as anyone. And if they can't get in to the doctor's office, just visit the emergency room sometime, there they sit, all lined up, waiting.
ReplyDeleteFrom the spouse of a former ER nurse: Yes, they all come in for free care. After treatment, the patient is briefed on how social services can help them pay the hospital bill. They are too frigging lazy and refuse to call social services.
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me! Let them die, means less on welfare!
ReplyDeleteHow about Asians. They're minorities too.
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ReplyDeleteIf there are no jobs why is the government flooding these areas with refugees?
So who is going to the doctor? I sure as heck can't afford to go anymore since Obamacare. You pay all this money for insurance and still can't afford to go because the deductible is so high.
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ReplyDeleteGood question. Everyone I talk to his paying through the nose for insurance but rarely if ever use it.
why would a bird live in a poor neighborhood
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