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State-Level and County-Level Estimates of Health Care Costs Associated with Food Insecurity
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 16 — July 11, 2019
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This map depicts lower and higher health care associated by food insecurity, both overall and per capita, at the state level. The data underlying this visualization are presented in Table 2, which enables the reader to determine the overall and per capita health care costs associated with food insecurity for all US states.
Figure 1.
Health care costs associated with food insecurity (A) and per capita health care costs associated with food insecurity (B), by state, United States, 2012–2013.
This map depicts lower and higher health care associated by food insecurity, both overall and per capita, at the county level. The data underlying this visualization are presented in the Appendix, which enables the reader to determine the overall and per capita health care costs associated with food insecurity for all US counties.
Figure 2.
Health care costs associated with food insecurity (A) and per capita health care costs associated with food insecurity (B), by county, United States, 2012–2013.
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