PROFILES OF RURAL AND METROPOLITAN COUNTIES County Distributions by Metropolitan and Rural Locations
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This section provides background information on the distributions of counties by the metropolitan and non-metropolitan categories used in this research and on their characteristics with respect to population size, designations of underserved areas, and supply of health care providers. This information provides context for the study, and a number of the measures presented also are used in analyses reported in subsequent sections. The analyses were designed to address the following research questions:
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تاریخ انتشار 2002