Achieving rural health equity and well-being : proceedings of a workshop / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity ; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ; Steve Olson and Karen M. Anderson, rapporteurs.

Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The relative sparseness of the population in rural areas is one of many factors that influence the health and well-being of rural Americans. Rural areas have h...

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