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Vulnerable Rural Counties: The Changing Rural Landscape, 2000–2010
South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Bennett, Kevin J.
South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Bennett, Kevin J.
Abstract
Understanding the demography of rural America is vital to understanding what programs, interventions and policy initiatives are needed to improve health care access, delivery and outcomes. Overall findings suggest that rural America experienced the recession that ended the 2000–2010 decade more severely than did urban America. Loss of income, declining population and reduced health care resources marked the period for most rural counties. Rural counties will need continued monitoring in the present decade to ascertain whether these adverse trends continue and to identify any policy approaches that can serve to ameliorate losses in health care services.
Issue Date
2016-07
Keywords
United States--Population--Statistics, Rural development--United States--Statistics, Rural health services--United States
Type
Text
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