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David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) [[log in to unmask]]
Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S.
Elderly
Victor R. Fuchs, Mark McClellan, Jonathan Skinner
NBER Working Paper No. W8628
National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2001
Information at: <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8628>
".......... This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical
care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in 1990. The variables
included in the analysis are education, real income, cigarette sales,
obesity, air pollution, percent black, and
dummy variables for seven regions and five population size categories from
MSAs over 500,000 to not in MSA. Utilization, especially inpatient care, is
strongly positively related to mortality. Mortality is positively related to
cigarette sales, obesity, air
pollution and percent black. Utilization (especially outpatient) is
significantly higher in MSAs with populations greater than 500,000.
Mortality does not vary with population size, with or without controls.
Florida is an outlier for both utilization (very high) and
mortality (by far the lowest of any region).
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