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Title: Distance to Hospital and Children's Use of Preventive Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?
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1. Currie, Janet
Reagan, Patricia Benton
Distance to Hospital and Children's Use of Preventive Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?
Economic Inquiry 41,3 (July 2003): 378-392.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/ei/cbg015/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Western Economic Association International
Keyword(s): Child Health; Children, Health Care; Geocoded Data; Geographical Variation; Health Care; Neighborhood Effects; Racial Differences

This article examines the effect of distance to hospital on preventive care among children using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's Child-Mother file matched to data from the 1990 American Hospital Association Survey. Among central-city black children, each additional mile from the hospital is associated with a 3-percentage-point decline in the probability of having had a checkup (from a mean baseline of 74%). Moreover, the effects are similar for privately and publicly insured black children. For this group, access to providers is as important as private insurance coverage in predicting use of preventive care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Currie, Janet and Patricia Benton Reagan. "Distance to Hospital and Children's Use of Preventive Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?" Economic Inquiry 41,3 (July 2003): 378-392.