Rural Health Research Gateway

Health Insurance Coverage for Rural Americans

Funders: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
Research center: Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Phone: 402.559.5260
Lead researcher: Erika Ziller, MS , 207.780.4615, eziller@usm.maine.edu
Project completed:March 2003
Topics: Health insurance and the uninsured
Rural statistics and demographics

The purpose of this project is to create a chartbook on the rural uninsured that provides a detailed description of the health insurance coverage status of rural residents, and the employment, economic, and socio-demographic characteristics associated with different coverage types. The project is a collaboration of the Rural Health Panel of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), the Maine Rural Health Research Center, and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Information from previous research plus analysis of the 1996-1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) household component files (with geographic detail-Urban Influence Codes-UICs) will be used to construct the chartbook and to prepare a policy white paper.


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