Disparities in Primary Health Care in Rural versus Urban Areas
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 7444
Special Issue Editor
2. DSJ Consulting Services LLC, 7510 Redland Park Pl, Derwood, MD 20855, USA
3. Previously Affiliated with US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MA 20857, USA
4. Previously Affiliated with US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD 21244, USA
5. Previously affiliated with Maryland Health Resources Planning Commission, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA
Interests: hospital quality of care; patient access to care; spatial access to hospital care; socioeconomic and racial disparities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many of the inequities in health result from a wide range of social, economic, and political circumstances or factors that differentially affect the distribution of health within a population. Some of the issues in rural primary care have been addressed in previous research. Although there is fragmented work on primary health care, no comprehensive evaluation has been made to date on the socioeconomic disparities affecting rural versus urban primary health care. The study of disparities in primary care is imperative since research has shown that primary care may reduce the negative health effects of economic inequality on health and mortality, especially in areas where income inequality is the highest.
An examination of the primary care system should begin by looking at both supply and demand issues in health care as it currently exists. On the supply side, one needs to evaluate health care resource supplies in rural versus urban regions. Equally important as the supply side, on the demand side one should seek to understand behavioral differences associated with healthcare use, stratified by socioeconomic status, such as age, race, income, and gender.
The purpose of this call for papers is to theoretically address these issues comprehensively and to report results from empirical work based on rural areas.
Dr. Jayasree (Joy) Basu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- primary care
- disparities
- socioeconomic factors
- rural areas
- urban area
- access to care
