Using Health Care: Rural/Urban Differences Among the Manitoba Elderly
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 24 (3) , 270-274
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/24.3.270
Abstract
Rural-urban differences in health care utilization between 1971 and 1977 are described using a sub-subsample of 3,628 elderly from the Manitoba Longitudinal Study of Aging. Despite disparities in reported income and in the distribution of physician resources, the volume and pattern of ambulatory care use by rural and urban elderly did not differ greatly. On the other hand, hospital usage, due largely to a higher hospital admission rate, was consistently greater among rural than urban elderly.Keywords
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