Rural-Urban Variations in Travel Burdens for Care: Findings from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey
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Provides estimates of the distance traveled and time spent on one-way trips for medical and dental care, examines how rural residents' travel behaviors vary by sociodemographic and geographic characteristics, and evaluates factors associated with a high travel burden for medical and dental care among rural residents. Features statistics with breakdowns by time and distance traveled, age, sex, race/ethnicity, household income, and rural or urban residence.
Author(s)
Marvellous Akinlotan, Kristin Primm, Nima Khodakarami, Jane Bolin, Alva O. Ferdinand
Date
07/2021
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Document
Organization
Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Tagged as
Access · Health disparities · Oral health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Transportation