Health Service Areas for the United States

Details

• Personal Author:
  Makuc, Diane M. ; Haglund, Bengt ; Ingram, Deborah D. ; Kleinman, Joel C. ; Feldman, Jacob J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  The objectives of this report are to document methods used to identify health service areas for the United States and to describe and evaluate these areas. A health service area is defined as one or more counties that are relatively self contained with respect to the provision of routine hospital care. Service areas that include more than one county are characterized by travel between the counties for routine hospital care.
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Surveys Public Health Vital Statistics
• Source:
  Other NCHS Survey or Data System
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  110 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  112
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8355fbbea3d6a816510ea7014b7499b96517008271a5be5da8cfa504d951c12991ee6f9132433862df8d78d72e426ef8ede83830bbc994eca199e426b1dc26e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6134/cdc_6134_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.75 MB ]