A cartographic study of hospital utilization in the county of Uppsala

Bengt Haglund

Social Science & Medicine, 1989, vol. 28, issue 2, 141-146

Abstract: In this study the question whether increased resources in community based primary care lead to decreased utilization of in-patient care has been analysed. Two alternative types of analysis were compared: a municipality-based analysis and a cartographic analysis based on non-administrative reference areas. The study material consisted of person-based data from Uppsala County in Sweden. The cartographic analyses revealed important characteristics of the utilization pattern, which would not have been possible to ascertain using traditional methods such as analyses based on administrative areas. Thus, the cartographic analysis gave some support to the hypothesis that increased resources to primary care will reduce the utilization of in-patient care.

Keywords: cartographic; analyses; person-based; analyses; health; care; utilization; in-patient; care; primary; care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(89)90141-X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:28:y:1989:i:2:p:141-146

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
http://www.elsevier. ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().