Rural Health Research Gateway

Describing the Health Care Infrastructure in Rural Towns

Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Phone: 919.966.5541
Lead researcher: Rebecca T. Slifkin, PhD , 919.966.5541, becky_slifkin@unc.edu
Project completed:February 2001
Topics: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
Hospitals and clinics
Mid-level practitioners
Physicians
Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)
Rural statistics and demographics

The goal of this project is to incorporate information from multiple data sources in order to describe more fully the health care infrastructure in rural towns. Provider data, used to place providers within ZIP codes, includes census of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse midwives. Organization data also placed within ZIP codes includes hospitals, rural health clinics, community health centers, migrant health centers, public health departments, dialysis centers and dental offices. Populations will be described in terms of their access to primary care and hospital services.


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This web site includes content provided by and adapted from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine under a Cooperative Agreement with the University of North Dakota.