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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1990
Health needs and health services in rural America are key issues directly related to education as well as community well-being. This report examines rural America's access to basic health care services and discusses options for congressional consideration. The focus is on trends in availability of primary and acute rural health care and on factors…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Hewitt, Maria – 1989
The 'rural' definitions applied by the Federal Government, especially by two data-gathering agencies, the Bureau of the Census and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), emphasize different dimensions of the concept, and delineate the rural-urban continuum in different ways. This report discusses the inconsistency of curent "rural"…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Definitions, Federal Government
