Insight Into Health Care Services: A Characterization of Emergency Room Visits and Economic Hazards in the United States

OBJECTIVE: This study explores the impact of economic hazard areas on hospital-based emergency departments to determine whether economically hazardous environments, characterized by the change of population, income per capita, and unemployment rate, experience a higher number of emergency room visits than areas of lower rated economic hazard risk in the United States. METHOD: A cross-sectional design was used of a nationally constructed data …