Article: -UK GOVERNMENT: Boosting health in rural areas.

Why do so few HMOs offer Medicare risk plans in rural ...
Health Care Financing Review;  September 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... less than 19 percent resided in rural areas. Although rural areas contain a large segment of the ... little profit to be made in rural areas if utilization is already low ... somewhat poorer health status, health care utilization by the rural elderly ...

Article: VOA NEWS: AFRICA'S RURAL AREAS SUFFER MOST FROM ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 20, 2006 ;     692 words ... ... birthday, mass availability of health care, the chance that any given birth ... physicians per capita in urban areas to rural areas varies by a factor of almost 10 ... meeting in Boston, he called for health care system reform in poor countries ...

Article: Non-Veteran Health Care By VA Studied; Proposal ...
The Washington Post;  August 21, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... veterans who live in rural areas lacking adequate access to health care facilities. Care ... funds to pay for health care that would be offered ... outpatient clinics in rural areas or at existing VA ... lack access to good health care and HHS Secretary ...

Article: Therapy specialists ready to leap outside county and into ...
San Diego Business Journal;  October 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... system that has put many health care providers down for the ... easier to travel to rural areas these days, said Harris ... contract with TRICARE, a health care system that serves the ... nature of the U.S. health care system. "Insurance ...

Article: America's Rural Areas Need 'Dramatic Change' to ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 29, 2003 ;     628 words ... ... problems in the health-care system might be worse in rural areas. Almost any ... affects rural areas more, according ... studying rural health care. To make ... attracting health care workers is ... reimbursements in rural areas makes it hard ...

Article: Many rural areas have no therapists, less mental ...
PR Newswire;  July 15, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... RELEASE AYEMS MONDAY, JULY 18/ MANY RURAL AREAS HAVE NO THERAPISTS, LESS MENTAL HEALTH CARE THAN CITIES, NEW RESEARCH SHOWS ... PRNewswire/ -- People who live in rural areas have more barriers to mental health care than their city cousins, according ...

Transcript: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY IN ...
Congressional Testimony;  July 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ability to access health care and social services ... Aging Population in Rural Areas The aging demographics ... place population in rural areas generally has access to fewer health care services, which ... difficult to address in rural areas currently ...