title: Estimating the indirect effect of hospitals via complementary health care firms.
abstract: A hospital's indirect economic impact on the surrounding community includes the stimulus to producers of complementary health care goods and services. These include physicians' offices, pharmacies, nursing homes, and medical laboratories. A multiple regression model, which can be estimated using county-level data from Bureau of the Census publications, demonstrates that a hospital does have significant effects on the number and activity of firms in complementary health care industries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics & Finance, Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury State University, MD, USA.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D002391:Catchment Area, Health / Q000191:economics*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000191:economics*; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000191:economics*; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007753:Laboratories / Q000191:economics; D008396:Maryland; D017059:Models, Econometric; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics; D010594:Pharmacies / Q000191:economics; D012044:Regression Analysis