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Publication Date: October 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0195131282 | ISBN-13: 978-0195131284 | Edition: 1

Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care. Almost a quarter of the nation's population lives in rural places yet only an eighth of our doctors work there. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, this unique book provides the facts about this imbalance and interprets them in the context of government programs that promote the placement of doctors and the operation of hospitals in rural places while paying them less to treat Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors' comprehensive analysis of rural health care delivery shows where there are differences in rates of death and disease between rural areas using maps, graphs, and plain-English descriptions. The book provides a thorough look at health care in rural America, giving a snapshot of how doctors, hospitals, and technology are unevenly distributed outside the nation's metropolitan areas.

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Thomas C. Ricketts is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (October 15, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195131282
ISBN-13: 978-0195131284
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #997,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The United States is a continental nation; it covers 3,787,319 square miles and is the third largest nation in the world. Read the first page

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rural health networks, influence code categories, nonmetropolitan hospitals, specialty mental health professionals, rural health research, rural hospital networks, rural health policy, network demonstration program, urban influence codes, rural maternal, rural family physicians, medicare risk plans, nonmetropolitan counties, rural health care delivery, nonmetropolitan population, small metro area, urban beneficiaries, geographic maldistribution, rural providers, nonmetro counties, capitated programs, rural enrollment, nonmetro population, nonmetropolitan residents, obstetric providers

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United States, Bureau of the Census, Health Dept, New York, Journal of Rural Health, Chapel Hill, Metro Nonmetro, University of North Carolina, University of Minnesota, Department of Agriculture, American Hospital Association, General Accounting Office, New England, American Journal of Public Health, Balanced Budget Act, Bureau of Health Professions, Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Assessment, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Health Affairs, National Health Interview Survey, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Annual Survey of Hospitals, East North Central, East South Central

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