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Article: Community Effects on Access to Behavioral Health Care.
- Article from:
- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
- Author:
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Objectives. To explore the effects of community-level factors on access to any behavioral health care and specialty behavioral health care.
Data. Healthcare for Communities household survey data, merged to supplemental data from the 1990 Census Area Resource File, 1995 U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Estimates, and 1994 HMO enrollment data.
Study Design. We use a random intercept model to estimate the influences of community-level factors on access to any outpatient care, any behavioral health care conditional on having received outpatient care, and any specialty behavioral health care conditional on having received behavioral health care.
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