Preparation of a Geographic Study of Rural Health: Handbook of GeographicApplications for Health Policy along the Rural-Urban Continuum. Executive Summary

摘要

The document is the executive summary for the 'Handbook of GeographicApplications for Health Policy Along the Rural-Urban Continuum'. The handbook is meant to guide a variety of users in the applications of analytic geography and cartographic techniques for health policy analysis and health services research with a focus upon rural communities and populations. The summary gives a brief overview of the six chapters: The Rural-Urban Continuum, Changes and Meausres in the Crucial Dimension of Population, Health Professions Distributions, Regionalization of Health Care, Contagious Diseases, and Evaluating Clusters of Adverse Health Outcomes.