Preliminary Investigations of Hospital Geography and Patient Choice in Iowa

Mark D. Imerman, Liesl Eathington, Kanlaya Jintanakul and Daniel Otto

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This report provides a spatial representation of hospital geography in Iowa and of the decisions of patients to patronize hospitals. It begins with a brief analysis of hospital proximity and hospital proximity’s relationship to population distributions and existing hospital capacity. This is followed with a discussion of hospital capacity as a proxy for the supply of hospital services and the construction of hospital service area gravity models based upon capacity. Patient patronage of hospitals is then presented as a proxy of demand for hospital services, and gravity models are estimated on the basis of patronage.

Keywords: healthcare; hospital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-05-22
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