Poverty, Health Services, and Health Status in Rural America

Donald L. Patrick; Jane Stein; Miquel Porta; Carol Q. Porter; Thomas C. Ricketts

doi:10.2307/3349987

Abstract

Access to health services for everyone has been a major policy goal in the United States: inequitable access is assumed to lead to inequitable health status, particularly for low-income groups. A sophisticated model of the relation between poverty, health care needs, service use, and health outcomes is used to analyze cross-sectional data on 7,823 adults from 36 rural communities. Improved access and use are helpful, but evidence clearly indicates that combined health and social initiatives will be necessary to reduce inequalities in health status.

Keywords

PovertyHealth equityHealth policySocial determinants of healthEnvironmental healthHealth carePopulation healthEconomic growthHealth promotionPublic healthHealth servicesInternational healthSocial policyRural healthBusinessMedicinePolitical sciencePopulationNursingEconomics

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Year: 1988
Type: article
Volume: 66
Issue: 1
Pages: 105-105
Citations: 59
Access: Closed

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                                    Donald L. Patrick, 
                                
                                    Jane Stein, 
                                
                                    Miquel Porta
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1988). 
                            Poverty, Health Services, and Health Status in Rural America. 
                            Milbank Quarterly
                            , 66
                            (1)
                            , 105-105.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/3349987
                        

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DOI: 10.2307/3349987