Access to Health Care
- 7 October 1999
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
Ensuring equitable access to health care is an important public policy goal for the nation. A significant body of research and policy analysis has been focused on documenting access problems for vulnerable populations and suggesting policy options to eliminate access barriers (Aday, 1993; Aday et al., 1998). Rural populations have often been viewed as especially vulnerable with respect to access to health care because of poorly developed and fragile health infrastructures, high prevalence rates of chronic illness and disability, socioeconomic hardships, and physical barriers such as distance and availability of transportation, including a lack of public transportation (Rowland and Lyons, 1989).This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: