A large sector of the United States (U.S.) population. About 22 percent of Americans, approximately 55 million people, are considered "rural" residents. Rural people have a unique set of health issues; they experience social, cultural, and economic disadvantages that can increase their risk for adverse health consequences.
The first text of its kind, "Critical Issues in Rural Health," provides comprehensive sociological study of rural health and health care trends in the United States, by examining the health and well-being of rural populations at all stages of life. Editors Glasgow,...
A large sector of the United States (U.S.) population. About 22 percent of Americans, approximately 55 million people, are considered "rural" resident...
Competitive health care markets are unable to produce the health status goals Americans have set for themselves. Market-driven health care replaces health status goals with profitability goals. Competitive markets can only respond to the biomedical model of health care services. They can't alter structural characteristics of poverty, disease, and injury that are the root sources of health care costs and health status outcomes. Civic community, a variation of civil society, offers a third way (as opposed to markets and government command systems) of restructuring health care by addressing...
Competitive health care markets are unable to produce the health status goals Americans have set for themselves. Market-driven health care replaces...
