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1996 Health Status Survey - Health Care Access and Utilization | Utah Department of Health Bureau of Surveillance and Analysis | Assuring access to health care has been defined by the Institute of Medicine as one of the key functions of government in public health. In addition to the ability to access medical care for an acute medical problem, having a primary health care provider, or a "medical home" is also believed to prom... |
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1996 Health Status Survey : Health Care Access and Utilization / | Utah. Office of Public Health Data; Utah. Bureau of Surveillance and Analysis | Assuring access to health care has been defined by the Institute of Medicine as one of the key functions of government in public health1. In addition to the ability to access medical care for an acute medical problem, having a primary health care provider, or a "medical home" is also believed to pro... |
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2000 Utah Child Health Survey : General Population Overview / | Utah. Office of Public Health Assessment; Utah. Center for Health Data | This report is intended to provide an overview of the information collected in the 2000 Utah Child Health Survey. The survey was designed to address the important health issues among Utah children, including health insurance coverage, special health care needs, and patterns of health care delivery a... |
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Indicator profile of ambulatory care sensitive conditions: asthma hospital discharges among children / | Office of Health Care Statistics; Center for Health Data; Utah Dept. of Health | Risk-adjusted discharge rate for asthma children aged 0-17 years by year, Utah, 1999-2003. |
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Indicator profile of primary provider, usual source of care / | Utah. Center for Health Data; Utah. Dept. of Health | Percentage of persons who had a usual place of medical care by age and sex, Utah, 2004. |
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Utah health status update: comparison of selected child health measures / | Although Utah children are generally healthy, research suggests there is room for improvement in some areas. This update highlights selected findings from the Utah Health Status Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). | |
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Utah health status update: diabetes care in Utah: a 1996 survey of primary care physicians / | The mission of the Utah Department of Health Diabetes Control Program includes helping clinicians to improve the care they provide to persons with diabetes in Utah. To guide that effort, a mail and telephone survey of Utah primary care providers was conducted to obtain information on clinicians kno... | |
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Utah health status update: health care access and utilization in Utah / | Access to and utilization of health care services are important public policy issues. In the United States, expenditures for health care account for over 13% of gross domestic product. Despite that level of spending, access to the benefits of health care is very uneven. For example, the number of Am... | |
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Utah health status update: hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions / | Rates of preventable hospitalizations can help to identify problems in the primary care delivery system for an area or population. A recent Utah Department of Health report, Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Utah, examined hospitalization rates for eighteen such conditions... | |
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Utah health status update: primary care sensitive emergency department visits / | Hospital Emergency Departments (ED) have a critical role as a safety net provider in a community. For the uninsured, underinsured, or those who otherwise have limited access to primary care providers, the ED serves as the primary means of entry into the health care system. Therefore, ED utilization ... | |
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Utah health status update: Utah child health survey - overview / | Society values children and invests substantial public and private resources in their health. To better evaluate the health of children in Utah, the Utah Department of Health conducted the 2000 Utah Child Health Survey, a telephone survey of over 2,500 Utah households. This Health Status Update pres... | |
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Utah health status update: Utah children's access to routine medical care / | The health of children depends partially upon their access to health care services. The vast majority of Utah families use their own private resources to provide health care for their children. The primary role of public health in this area is to assess, and in some cases assure, the availability of... |
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