Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications
Abstract
Overview of Key Findings
- The states with the highest number of Medicare beneficiaries with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) were Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
- Significant clustering of health care utilization rates for Medicare beneficiaries with CWP was observed in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.
- Significant clustering of health care utilization rates for Medicare beneficiaries with Other Related Pneumoconiosis was observed in Appalachia and the southeast parts of Texas and Louisiana. This clustering merits additional research to understand underlying disease etiology.
Publication Date
4-5-2021
Funding Information
This project was supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under cooperative agreement # U1CRH30041.
Repository Citation
Arif, Ahmed A.; Owusu, Claudio; Paul, Rajib; Blanchette, Christopher M.; Patel, Ripsi P.; and Borders, Tyrone F., "Spatial Analysis of Health Care Utilization among Medicare Beneficiaries with Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and Other Related Pneumoconiosis" (2021). Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications. 17.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ruhrc_reports/17
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