Availability of Primary Care Safety Net Providers in Minoritized Racial/Ethnic Group Areas
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Description
Explores the availability of primary care safety net providers - Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) - nationwide across ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) categorized by rurality and racial and ethnic composition in 2020. Provides data on the median distance to any FQHC by ZCTA urban-rural status and minoritized ethnic and racial group (MRG) category, as well as the median distance to an RHC by MRG ZCTA status among rural ZCTAs.
Author(s)
Melinda A. Merrell, Whitney E. Zahnd, Gabriel A. Benavidez, et al.
Date
08/2023
Type
Document
Organization
Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
Tagged as
Access · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Primary care · Racial and ethnic groups · Rural Health Clinics · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data
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- Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center), view details