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Louisiana Region IV Health Demographics: |
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| Louisiana Region IV Health Demographics: A Tool for Healthcare Policy Making was prepared as the deliverable of a Directed Individual Study in the Health Care Administration graduate program (part of the Master of Business Administration curriculum at The University of Lafayette at Lafayette) by Irene Lindermaier Brackin, a Graduate Research Assistant in the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana (HICA). The tables and charts were extracted or created from Census 2000 and other data sources and are intended as a tool for healthcare policy-making. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana Region IV Health Demographics: A Tool for Healthcare Policy Making is a guide to important data in each of the seven (7) parishes that make up the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospital's Region IV. | ||||||||||||||||||||
One focus of this report is the geographic distribution of medically indigent populations, derived primarily from Census 2000 data. |
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Another focus of the report is a determination of travel distance from medically indigent populations to providers of outpatient healthcare that routinely – whether as an integral part of their missions or as a consequence of serving the general public – offer “free” care to the qualifying persons, including government-supported clinics and hospital emergency rooms. |
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Louisiana Region IV Health Demographics: A Tool for Healthcare Policy Making consists of the following segments: |
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| Geographic Distribution of Medically Indigent Populations. | ||||||||||||||||||||
- Region IV Health Demographics, including statistics on poverty levels by age, population below 200% of poverty level, medically indigent population, and Zipcode areas in Region IV that include at least 2,000 persons at or below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level.
- Parish-Level Health Demographics. • Acadia Parish Health Demographics. • Evangeline Parish Health Demographics. • Iberia Parish Health Demographics. • Lafayette Parish Health Demographics. • St. Landry Parish Health Demographics. • St. Martin Parish Health Demographics. • Vermilion Parish Health Demographics. - Appendices A and B featuring subject definitions. |
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| Click here to access the Geographic Distribution section. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Travel Distance/Time to Providers of Outpatient Healthcare Services for the Medically Indigent – from the centers of the 19 Zipcode areas in Region IV that include 2,000 or more persons at or below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level. | ||||||||||||||||||||
- To “free care” ambulatory facilities – e.g., Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), parish health units, Women-Infants-Children (WIC) program centers, and government-run hospital-based clinics.
- To hospital emergency rooms.- To University Medical Center and Clinics in Lafayette. |
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| Click here to access the Travel Distance/Time section. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Document last revised Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:18 AM
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Health Informatics Center of Acadiana
P.O. Box 41007, Lafayette LA 70504-1007
Phone: 337/482-6160 · Facsimile: 337/482-5902
Wharton Hall, Room 501 · caillouet@louisiana.edu
