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Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England
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BACKGROUND: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) galvanised debate in the United States (US) over universal health coverage. Comparison with countries providing universal coverage may illustrate whether the ACA can improve health outcomes and reduce disparities. We aimed to compare quality and disparities in hypertension management by socio-economic position in the US and England, the latter of which has universal health care. METHOD: We used data from the Health and Retiremen...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0083705
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- e83705
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-11-06
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1932-6203
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- English
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- pubs:447097
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447097
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-13
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- Dalton et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © 2014 Dalton et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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