Spatiotemporal discordance in five common measures of rurality for US counties and applications for health disparities research in older adults

Introduction: Rural populations face numerous barriers to health, including poorer health care infrastructure, access to care, and other sociodemographic factors largely associated with rurality. Multiple measures of rurality used in the biomedical and public health literature can help assess rura...

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Main Authors: Steven A. Cohen, Lauren eKelley, Allison E. Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00267/full