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The Geographic Accessibility of Retail Clinics for Underserved Populations—Invited Commentary
Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH
Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(10):950-951.
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Retail medical facilities are designed to respond to demand for more accessible nonemergency medical care. Thus, they follow the same principles as any market: hours that suit customers and prices that can be paid by available methods (out of pocket or insurance). Most clinics are owned by drugstore retailers or hospitals.1
A long history of health services research demonstrates that, when people lack it, access to health services is their highest priority. Thus, it is no surprise that providing easily accessible services meets an important demand in many populations that now lack it.
Despite the assertion by proponents that these clinics are particularly beneficial to the uninsured and underserved, Pollack and Armstrong show that the clinics are less likely to be in areas with a high concentration of African American populations or poor populations. They are also less likely to be located in medically underserved areas. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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