Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.
Contents
Financing the demand for rural health care / LaVonne A. Straub and Norman Walzer -- Access and utilization: special populations-special needs / Lanis L. Hicks -- The case for keeping the rural hospital / Ron Damasauskas -- Evaluating alternative rural hospital models: what are we learning? / George H. McNeely -- The primary-care hospital: more and better health care without closure / Jeffrey C. Bauer -- Medical education and preparation of physicians for rural practice / Kevin M. Fickenscher -- Preparing and recruiting nurses for innovating rural practice roles / Eileen M. Weis -- Changing the paradigm of rural health-care delivery / Donald L. Cordes and LaVonne A. Straub -- Medical informatics-technology for rural health care / Richard L. Thorp and Donald L. Cordes -- Rural EMS system development: innovative technological approaches / Paul B. Anderson -- The RWJ hospital-based demonstration and state rural health policy / Anthony R. Kovner and Joan M. Kiel -- Developing a rural health-care agenda for the future / Larry T. Patton -- Rural society-the environment of rural health care / Edward W. Hassinger and Daryl J. Hobbs.
