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Rural Minority Health: A Comprehensive Assessment of Health Status, Health Care Utilization and Barriers to Care among Rural Minorities
Informed policy begins with epidemiology. Without a clear picture of the rural minority population, policy will be based on extrapolation from limited area studies, from urban populations, and from rural white populations. Few studies attempt to characterize the rural minority population and even fewer do so on a national basis. To remedy this gap, this project will conduct original analyses on eight available national data sets pertaining to population demographics, health status and health care utilization. These include USA Counties (a Census compilation), the National Health Interview Survey, the National Health and Nutrition Survey, the National Ambulatory Care Medical Care Survey, the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Medical Care Survey, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the Area Resource File. At the completion of the project, the Office of Rural Health Policy will have an accessible, easily distributed baseline document outlining health status, health behaviors, and access to care among rural minorities that can be used for policy planning and analysis.
Publications
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Access to Care among Rural Minorities: Children
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Charity Moore, Karin Willert Roof, Elizabeth G. Baxley, Michael E. Samuels
Date: 11 / 2002
Profiles the characteristics of non-metro children, their health insurance coverage, and their health care visits. Recommends a multi-faceted approach to ensure that non-metro children obtain appropriate levels of health care. Facets including retaining and expanding provision of care to indigent and low-income families, expanding insurance coverage, and addressing rural poverty.
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Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Children (Appendix - Methods, Data Sources, and Detailed Tables)
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Charity Moore, Karin Willert Roof, Elizabeth G. Baxley, Michael E. Samuels
Date: 11 / 2002
Appendix of report on rural minority children and the factors affecting their health insurance coverage and health services use.
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Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Older Adults
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore, Joette Gdovin
Date: 10 / 2002
Profiles health status of, and use of physicians by, non-metro older adults. Programmatic recommendations based on the findings: maintain programs that encourage providers to practice in non-metro areas, pay particular attention to the problems of the near-poor African-American elderly, and foster coalitions linking providers with voluntary community-based organizations to increase support services to elderly non-metro populations.
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Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Older Adults (Appendix - Methods, Data, and Detailed Tables)
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore, Joette Gdovin
Date: 10 / 2002
Appendix of report on health status and health services use among poor and minority older adults in non-metro areas.
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Access to Care among Rural Minorities: Working Age Adults
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore
Date: 01 / 2003
Examines the prevalence of health insurance and the use of physician services in rural areas. Findings include that rural minorities are handicapped by poverty and lack of education; low income and low education levels in non-metro areas translate into jobs that do not offer health insurance; and although non-metro adults were less likely to have insurance than metropolitan residents, they were not less likely to see a physician, with some exceptions.
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Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Working Age Adults (Appendix - Methods, Data, and Detailed Tables)
Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore
Date: 01 / 2003
Appendix of report on health status and health services use among poor and minority working age adults in non-metro areas.
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