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Rural Healthcare
In 1976 over 53 million Americans lived in roughly 900 rural counties, which together make up about 40% of the land mass of this country. These areas are characterized by low population density, a disproportionate share of the country's poor and elderly, and shortages of all kinds (Bayer, Caplan, Daniels, 1983). Most important, however, are the critical shortages of health manpower and health services d ....
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.... in rural areas. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 represented a major effort by the federal government to increase health resources in underserved areas. This subsidized construction program made it possible for many communities without a hospital or with inadequate facilities to obtain better health care. This had its shortcomings because hospitals without doctors were, of course, of little value. There were other approaches used during the decades since Hill-Burton to redis ....
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