Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession: Disparities across race and ethnicity and geospatial factors

Samuel D. Towne, Janice C. Probst, James W. Hardin, Bethany A. Bell and Saundra Glover

Social Science & Medicine, 2017, vol. 182, issue C, 30-44

Abstract: In the United States (US) and elsewhere, residents of low resource areas face health-related disparities, and may experience different outcomes throughout times of severe economic flux. We aimed to identify individual (e.g. sociodemographic) and environmental (e.g. region, rurality) factors associated with self-reported health and forgone medical care due to the cost of treatment in the US across the Great Recession (2008–2009).

Keywords: Health and place; Rural health; Recession; Access to care; Health disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.005

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