Guidelines for defining and analyzing health care services areas.
The current health care environment demands well-informed health care planners. Toward that end, this article describes defining the service area by ZIP code areas and census tracts, obtaining and using data from the Bureau of the Census for demographic analysis, and presenting the results to the decision makers.
D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D011177:Postal Service; D014481:United States