There are several social and geographic factors that have an impact on the health status and health behavior of rural residents. Individuals who have made a study of rural health during the past 20 years are most often concerned with what care issue?
A) Access
B) Cost
C) Quality
D) Inferiority
Ans: A
Those who have made a study of rural health during the past 20 years most often have been concerned with access to services. The traditional approach has been to gather data on services that can be easily quantified, such as the number of primary care physicians, the number of hospital beds, or the number of dentists. Ratios of services to population are then calculated, and the rural ratio is compared with the urban ratio.
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