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
Organization
Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
Tagged as
Policy
· Research methods and resources
· Rural definitions