Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 9/2018

01-09-2018 | Concise Research Reports

Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Authors: William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA, Mariétou H. L. Ouayogodé, PhD, James N. Weinstein, DO, MS

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 9/2018

Login to get access

Excerpt

While geographic variation in Medicare health services utilization and costs has been studied for decades, recent work has suggested that community-level social determinants of health1—including local economic activity2,3—might explain geographically defined disparities in health service utilization and outcomes. …
Literature
1.
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; 2017.
2.
Weeks WB, Weinstein JN. Per-capita Medicare expenditures, primary care access, mortality rates, and the least healthy cities in America. The American journal of medicine 2017;130:101–4.CrossRef
3.
Krumholz HM, Normand ST, Wang Y. Geographical health priority areas for older Americans. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018;37:104–10.CrossRef
4.
Huang J, Birkenmaier J, Kim Y. Job loss and unmet health care needs in the economic recession: different associations by family income. American journal of public health 2014;104:e178–83.CrossRef
5.
Painter A. A universal basic income: the answer to poverty, insecurity, and health inequality? BMJ (Clinical research ed) 2016;355:i6473.
Metadata
Title
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Authors
William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA
Mariétou H. L. Ouayogodé, PhD
James N. Weinstein, DO, MS
Publication date
01-09-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 9/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4478-7

Other articles of this Issue 9/2018

Journal of General Internal Medicine 9/2018 Go to the issue

Concise Research Reports

Effects of Race Are Rarely Included in Clinical Prediction Models for Cardiovascular Disease

Original Research

Potentially Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing, Overdose, and Mortality in Massachusetts, 2011–2015

Concise Research Reports

Chronic Multisymptom Illness Among Iraq/Afghanistan-Deployed US Veterans and Their Healthcare Utilization Within the Veterans Health Administration

Concise Research Reports

Impact of Drug Overdose Deaths on Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States

Concise Research Reports

The Form and Content of Cannabis Products in the United States

Editorial

Breakdowns on the information highway during inter-hospital patient transfers
Live Webinar | 27-06-2024 | 18:00 (CEST)

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Reserve your place

Live: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)

WHO estimates that half of all patients worldwide are non-adherent to their prescribed medication. The consequences of poor adherence can be catastrophic, on both the individual and population level.

Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.

Prof. Kevin Dolgin
Prof. Florian Limbourg
Prof. Anoop Chauhan
Developed by: Springer Medicine
Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

Read more

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Pediatric Cardiology Video

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

Cardiopulmonary Comorbidity Video

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Valvular Heart Disease Video

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Heart Failure Video

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.

ACC 2024 Congress Coverage

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Heart Failure Video

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.

Watch now

Semaglutide benefits people with type 2 diabetes and obesity-related heart failure

16-04-2024 Type 2 Diabetes News

Incentivised to exercise

11-04-2024 Lifestyle Modifications News

New intervention for STEMI-related cardiogenic shock

10-04-2024 Myocardial Infarction News

» View more highlights on the ACC 2024 congress hub page

Image Credits