Rural Health Research Gateway

Defining rural

Completed Projects

Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) Development Project: Demographic Description and Frontier Enhancement
Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Defining rural, Frontier health
This project augments the initial RUCA work by producing and describing the base 1998 demography of the RUCA code areas, creating quality state maps of the RUCA codes, and making this information and the codes easily available on the Web.

Validation of Commuting Area Designations for the Elderly
Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Aging, Defining rural


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