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A story of primary care: neighborhood deprivation and health spending

By | July 2, 2020

A new study out this month in Medical Care by Yongkang Zhang and colleagues finds that people in struggling neighborhoods have considerably higher spending on potentially preventable health care. While overall health care spending was similar between the most deprived areas and average communities, the finding about spending on potentially preventable health care tells an… Read More »