State-level unemployment and the utilization of preventive medical services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the association between macroeconomic conditions and preventive medical service utilization.

Data sources/study setting

Secondary data collection of a survey of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of adults (age 18 and older) in the United States between 1987 and 2010.

Study design

Regression analyses that adjust for individual-level demographic and socioeconomic determinants, state and time-fixed effects, and state-specific time trends.

Data collection/extraction methods

State health departments, with technological and methodological assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted a cross-sectional yearly telephone survey using a standardized questionnaire.

Principal findings

The use of preventive

SUBMITTER: Tefft N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3922473 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature