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Health Care Contact in Rural Areas of the Northeast: A Progress Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Charles O. Crawford ,
Donn A. Derr ,
Nelson LeRay  and
Edmund F. Jansen Jr.
Charles O. Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
Donn A. Derr
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Rutgers University
Nelson LeRay
Affiliation:
Economic Development Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Edmund F. Jansen Jr.
Affiliation:
Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of New Hampshire
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Problems in the delivery of community services to rural areas have received increasing attention in recent years. One concern has centered on questions of use, availability, accessibility, satisfaction, and problems in use by consumers, while a second focus has been on provider organization. A third important focus has been on the role of services in development of a community. Does service “mix” (amount of services provided in a community) have an effect on growth or decline of the community? Conversely, does growth or decline of the community have an effect on service mix? These are at least three more specific dimensions of the larger complex issue of service delivery for rural areas.

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Community Development
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 120 - 131
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

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The research this article is based on was conducted under Northeast Regional Research Project NΕ-77, “Community Services for Nonmetropolitan People in the Northeast”, and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Project Hatch 875, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Project Hatch 210 and Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station Project Hatch 1914 and published as New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series Paper. The views presented herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the cooperating agencies.

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