Rural health in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Ch. 1. Populations and places in rural America -- Ch. 2. Access to health care -- Ch. 3. Physicians and rural America -- Ch. 4. Nonphysician professionals and rural America -- Ch. 5. Federal programs and rural health -- Ch. 6. The medicare program in rural areas -- Ch. 7. State laws and programs that affect rural health delivery -- Ch. 8. Medicaid managed care in rural areas -- Ch. 9. Hospitals in rural America -- Ch. 10. Rural managed care -- Ch. 11. Rural health care networks -- Ch. 12. Rural maternal and perinatal health -- Ch. 13. Rural children's health -- Ch. 14. Rural mental health and substance abuse -- Ch. 15. The rural elderly and long-term care
This work aims to provide a view of the health status and health care resources of the rural areas of the USA. This text updates Health Care in Rural America, published by the Office of Technology Assessment in 1990