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The relationship between local area labor market conditions and the use of Veterans Affairs health services

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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Title
The relationship between local area labor market conditions and the use of Veterans Affairs health services
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-96
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Authors

Edwin S Wong, Chuan-Fen Liu

Abstract

In the U.S., economic conditions are intertwined with labor market decisions, access to health care, health care utilization and health outcomes. The Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system has served as a safety net provider by supplying free or reduced cost care to qualifying veterans. This study examines whether local area labor market conditions, measured using county-level unemployment rates, influence whether veterans obtain health care from the VA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 7%
Unknown 14 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 27%
Other 3 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Researcher 1 7%
Student > Postgraduate 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 40%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 27%
Engineering 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2015.
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#3,018,076
of 22,701,287 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,338
of 7,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,155
of 195,964 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#21
of 102 outputs
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