Understanding shortages of sufficient health care in rural areas

I Weinhold, S Gurtner - Health Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
… Despite efforts to provide comprehensive health care services and … health care delivery in
rural areas. The purpose of this study is to characterize health care shortages in the rural areas

The changing nature of rural health care

TC Ricketts - Annual review of public health, 2000 - annualreviews.org
… The health care conditionsof selected rural areas compare unfavorably with the rest of
the nation. Themarket and governmental policies have attempted to address some of …

Continuous and integrated health care services in rural areas. A literature study

EM Rygh, P Hjortdahl - Rural and Remote Health, 2007 - search.informit.org
healthcare services in rural areas. While there is abundant literature on making healthcare
… continuity and coordination of care, only some part of this relates to rural issues. An added …

Rural health and health care.

IS Watt, AJ Franks, TA Sheldon - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… districts in the north is higher than that in urban districts in the south,5 and the gradient of
decreasing mortality from urban to rural areas may not persist for the remoter rural areas.6 Of …

Exposing some important barriers to health care access in the rural USA

N Douthit, S Kiv, T Dwolatzky, S Biswas - Public health, 2015 - Elsevier
… Significant differences in health care access between rural and urban areas exist. Reluctance
to seek health care in rural areas was based on cultural and financial constraints, often …

The challenging quest to improve rural health care

JK Iglehart - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
… of recognition by legislators and the sheer isolation of living in remote rural areas all conspire
to impede rural Americans in their struggle to lead a normal, healthy life,” 3 although some …

Using e-health to enable culturally appropriate mental healthcare in rural areas

P Yellowlees, S Marks, D Hilty… - … and e-Health, 2008 - liebertpub.com
… How do we distinguish between community/ structural barriers to e-mental health care (eg,
a low-income community) and individual characteristics (that may vary with- …

Private and public health care in rural areas of Uganda

J Konde-Lule, SN Gitta, A Lindfors, S Okuonzi… - … health and human rights, 2010 - Springer
… the scope and character of health care services in rural areas in Uganda with a particular focus
… of health care providers in rural Uganda, the quality of care they offer and their utilization. …

Quality‐of‐care challenges for rural health

I Moscovice, R Rosenblatt - The Journal of Rural Health, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… by rural communities in assuring adequate health care services. Providing health care in
many rural areas is … that the quality of health care provided by rural clinicians and institutions is …

Health and health care of rural populations in the UK: is it better or worse?

IS Watt, AJ Franks, TA Sheldon - … Epidemiology & Community Health, 1994 - jech.bmj.com
… likely to have an interest in rural health. Although this "grey" … the health and health care
of the UK rural populations is … urban health seem to be generally worse than in rural areas, …