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Title: Using Risk Factors to Assess Health Care Access in a Community

Copyright Date: Nov. 2000

Pages: 12

Authors:Robert Seifert, The Access Project

Description: Risk factors are a useful tool in local policymaking efforts. Although there is no single access measure broadly available that evaluates access to health care in any state, county, or town, research literature has documented “risk factors”—certain population and economic characteristics—that are associated with primary measures of access. This paper examines those risk factors and suggests how this info rmation might be used to improve access.

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