What is Different About Rural Health Care?
Internet URL
http://www.nrharural.org/about/sub/different.html 
Sponsoring Agency
National Rural Health Association
Description
The obstacles faced by health care providers and patients in rural areas are vastly different than those in urban areas. Rural Americans face a unique combination of factors that create disparities in health care not found in urban areas. This document lists some factors and their effects that impede rural Americans in their struggle to lead a normal, healthy life, including economic factors, cultural and social differences, educational shortcomings, lack of recognition by legislators, and the sheer isolation of living in remote rural areas.