A geographic assessment of health-care coverage in two "rural" north carolina communities'

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-144

  Gésier, Wilbert M ^a   Jordan, Joanne M ^b   Dragomir, Anca ^b   Luta, Gheorghe ^b   Fryer, John G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health care coverage; Rural urban continuum

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL AREA; SERVICE PROVISION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033396503     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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