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Achieving rural health equity and well-being : proceedings of a workshop

Title

Achieving rural health equity and well-being : proceedings of a workshop / Steve Olson and Karen M. Anderson, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ; Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-being: Challenges and Opportunities (Workshop) (2017 : Prattville, Ala.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, [2018]
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Description

xiv, 80 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The relative sparseness of the population in rural areas is one of many factors that influence the health and well-being of rural Americans. Rural areas have histories, economies, and cultures that differ from those of cities and from one rural area to another. Understanding these differences is critical to taking steps to improve health and well-being in rural areas and to reduce health disparities among rural populations. To explore the impacts of economic, demographic, and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on June 13, 2017. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description.

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Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Potential challenges and opportunities in rural communities -- Leveraging resources to advance equity in rural areas -- Building greater prosperity in rural communities -- Equitable access to health and health care -- Final reflections

ISBN

9780309469050
0309469058
9780309469067
0309469066

OCLC

on1030484018
1030484018
SCSB-9176269

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Columbia University Libraries