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1. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullPerformance of health care service area definitions for ...

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   May 2, 2024 · Health care service area (HCSA) definitions are important for a variety of regulatory, policy, and research purposes. Many different HCSA definitions are available, with each capturing a different population and subset of clinical utilization. What this study adds.

2. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesAutomated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas and Hospital ...

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   Nov 16, 2016 · The new method is automated, scale‐flexible, and effective in capturing the natural structure of the health care system. It has great potential for applications in delineating other health care service areas or in larger geographic regions.

   • Author: Yujie Hu, Fahui Wang, Imam M. Xierali
   • DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12616

   • Publish Year: 2016
   • Publication: Health Serv Res. 2018 Feb; 53(1): 236-255.

3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 27861822Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas and Hospital ...

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   Objective: To develop an automated, data-driven, and scale-flexible method to delineate hospital service areas (HSAs) and hospital referral regions (HRRs) that are up-to-date, representative of all patients, and have the optimal localization of hospital visits.

4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books › NBK2210455 GEOGRAPHY AND DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE

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   Geographic methods for health care service area construction were the subject of a comprehensive review in the context of geography (Simpson et al., 1994). There are three major types of methods for creating service areas: geographic distance, geopolitical areas, and patient origins.

   • Author: Elaine K. Swift
   • Published: 2002

   • Publish Year: 2002

5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesNetwork Optimization Approach to Delineating Health Care ...

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   Constructing service areas is an important task for evaluating geographic variation of health care markets. This study uses cancer care as an example to illustrate the methodology, with the nine-state Northeast Region of the U.S. as the study area.

   • Author: Changzhen Wang, Fahui Wang, Tracy Onega
   • DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12722

   • Publish Year: 2021
   • Published: 2021/04

6. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com › articles › 10Development and Evaluation of Rehabilitation Service Areas ...

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   Mar 1, 2023 · They developed and manage geographic boundaries for acute hospital-based care as well as primary care. The most notable of these are Hospital Service Areas, Hospital Referral Regions, and Primary Care Service Areas [2, 19].

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   How are health care service areas constructed?

   • Geographic methods for health care service area construction were the subject of a comprehensive review in the context of geography (Simpson et al., 1994). There are three major types of methods for creating service areas: geographic distance, geopolitical areas, and patient origins.

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   What are the different types of service areas?

   • There are three major types of methods for creating service areas: geographic distance, geopolitical areas, and patient origins. A distance approach would create radii or ellipses that surround a central place or limited numbers of nodes that represent core activities.

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   What are primary care service areas?

   • Primary care service areas have been developed in several states including Arizona, California, Maine, North Carolina, and Tennessee. They are used for the analysis of access to care or to create subcounty areas for designation for federal programs. These are clusters of ZIP codes (NC) and sub-county census geography (AZ, ME, CA).

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   How is Canada's health care system organized?

   • The organization of Canada's health care system is largely determined by the Canadian Constitution, in which roles and responsibilities are divided between the federal, and provincial and territorial governments. The provincial and territorial governments have most of the responsibility for delivering health and other social services.

   Canada's Health Care System

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   What are regional systems & structures?

   • Regional systems and structures have been developed to cope with health problems across state borders. They include the health care system development of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) as well as work in the lower Mississippi Delta.

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   How does the federal government support health care?

   • To support the costs of publicly funded services, including health care, the federal government also provides Equalization payments to less prosperous provinces and territorial financing to the territories.

   Canada's Health Care System

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8. www.canada.ca › en › health-canadaCanada's Health Care System

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   How Health Care Services Are Delivered. Canada's publicly funded health care system is best described as an interlocking set of ten provincial and three territorial health systems. Known to Canadians as "medicare," the system provides access to a broad range of health services.