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urbanization and specialization in medical practice have resulted in a maldistribution of physicians in rural areas leaving some rural communities without immediate access to medical care.
We find that rural people in the more sparsely populated areas have only about one-half the access per person to physicians, nurses, dentists, hospital beds, and other health resources when compared with the rest of the nation. The health problems of rural areas are further compounded by environmental hazards, an aging population, and a high degree of poverty.
About 6 million people live in isolated rural counties where the physician population ratio is about 2,000 or 3,000 to 1, compared with the national average of about 680 to 1.
How does the woman who lives in a far-away mountain town get emergency medical treatment'.' Who aids the farmer who is suddenly stricken in his fields? V^Jiere do parents take a sick child when snow covers the roads and the family lives many miles from the nearest hospital?
Incisive answers will be sought to these serious questions during the 22nd National Conference on Rural Health in Philadelphia, Pa., March 21-22, 1969, at the Marriott Motor Hotel. 'Phe
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