Health Care Access in the Heartland: How to Improve Services in Rural America

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Outlines strategies policymakers and community leaders in rural America can use to improve healthcare access and services. Combines data analysis of county demographics and health data with focus groups in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Provides expert interviews to better understand healthcare access in rural communities.

Darren Chapman, Angie Cooper, Elizabeth Dombowsky, et al.

12/2022

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Heartland Forward

Access · Health workforce supply and demand · Licensure and certification of health professionals · Policy · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Arkansas · Kansas · Kentucky · Missouri · Oklahoma · Tennessee