Health Care in Rural Texas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Desoto (Southwest Minnesota State University), Hassan Tajalli (0000-0001-9324-1177, Southwest Minnesota State University), Kay Hofer (Southwest Minnesota State University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 154-164 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02082.x |
| OpenAlex | W2053102978 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of health and health care services available to rural Texans. Specifically, we seek to answer two related questions. First, do people living in rural areas of Texas generally suffer from poorer health than people living in urban Texas? One undoubtedly would think so, given frequent references to the low quality of personal services in general for rural America. Moreover, the persistence of the congressional Rural Health Care Caucus over the past two decades points to a rural health care crisis. Second, to what extent are these differences in health conditions explained by differences in access to health care enjoyed by people living in the two different regions? Access certainly appears to be the problem alluded to above. Rural people apparently lack physician care. In addition to providing answers to these questions, we also examine the difference in the health conditions and access to care enjoyed by minority and non‐minority rural Texans. Is this a part of the rural health care problem given the high incidence of non‐whites in rural Texas? If so this may be minority rather than rural neglect. We briefly conclude the article with some recommendations for improving the problems we identify
Caucus · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Neglect · Political science · Rural area · Rural health · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Highly cited | No |
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