Comments on: Geography, Poverty and Health Care

By: Xavier Sindoni

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By: Jousting Between the New York Times and the Dartmouth Atlas Over Interpretations of Cost & Quality Variation. | Health Wiki information

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:29:08 +0000

[...] some instances for some hospitals, more money is necessary to overcome the impact of factors like local poverty. Good [...]

By: Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters « PHYSICIANS and HEALTH CARE REFORM Commentaries and Controversies

Mon, 03 May 2010 01:27:17 +0000

[...] can read more about this issue in other posts, particularly this, this and most recently this – and much more. It is the issue of our [...]

By: The Death of Dartmouth, but Who’s To Blame? « PHYSICIANS and HEALTH CARE REFORM Commentaries and Controversies

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:00:25 +0000

[...] health care costs) live in the poorest counties (see my blog report and an earlier discussion of poverty and health care). And there’s the recent paper by Ong and Rosenthal (co-authored by Jose Escarce, editor of [...]

By: America's Physician Shortage: Lessons from Lincoln - Health Care Cost Monitor

America's Physician Shortage: Lessons from Lincoln - Health Care Cost Monitor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:57:15 +0000

[...] distributed), coupled with an historic preference for internists in the Northeast (where there is dense urban poverty) and the low numbers of all physicians across the South (where poverty is [...]

By: Phyllis Abele

Phyllis Abele — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:53:30 +0000

Womans clinics and birth control is very important to control poverty. I can not understand why abortion and clinics are not the prority to help poor people.

By: Maximizing Benefits: A Rights-Based Approach to Health | OpenForum - a blog by the Health and Human Rights community

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:19 +0000

[...] levels of care (also see the Dartmouth Atlas Study), coupled with disparities in access and outcomes for the medically underserved. In fact, emphasizing universal access to primary care would result in saved costs and improved [...]

By: Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending « SF Gray Panthers

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:16:26 +0000

[...] greater per capita spending, more hospital readmissions and poorer outcomes,” he wrote in an Oct. 24 post on his blog. “It is the single strongest factor in variations in health care and the single greatest [...]