Considerations for Defining Rural Places in Health Policies and Programs
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Description
Highlights key questions to be considered when evaluating a definition of rural that is most appropriate for a specific policy or program. Discusses the principles needed to drive rural definitions and the current challenges of changing rural definitions. Provides an overview of common rural definitions in use, and offers options for the development of new definitions and adjustments to current definitions.
Author(s)
Keith J. Mueller, Andrew F. Coburn, Alana Knudson, Jennifer P. Lundblad, A. Clinton MacKinney, et al.
Date
05/2020
Type
Document
Organization
Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
Tagged as
Policy · Research methods and resources · Rural definitions