Data on the ambulatory medical care provided during office visits to obstetriciangynecologists are presented. Individual practice profiles are drawn for different age groups of physicians, for those in the four major geographic regions, for those in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, and for those in solo and group practices. Patterns of medical care are also described according to the age...

A dip and peak pattern of suicide around major public holidays has been found in developed countries and explained by the broken promise effect. Focusing on two major holidays in South Korea (New Year's Day and Thanksgiving Day, both on the lunar calendar), replication of the dip and peak pattern was done by analyzing individual information on all suicides from 1997 to 2014. The replicated patt...

The Great Plains are sometimes characterized as an economically lagging region. To shed some light on the region sprospects, the locational and structural changes in employment patterns in the northern and central Great Plains were examinedfor the 1980 to 1990 period. County-level data were drawn from CD-ROM census publications and matched with locational references using Atlas *GIS . Shift-sha...

The question of where rural capital markets are headed is a timely one for several reasons. First, rural capital markets are in the process of integrating into a broad-based national capital market. Second, these rural markets seem likely to continue harboring unfilled gaps, compared to national capital markets. Third, structural changes in the markets can have both positive and negative impact...

BACKGROUND Metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan status and area median income may independently affect care for and outcomes of acute coronary syndromes. We sought to determine whether location of care modifies the association among area income, receipt of cardiac catheterization, and mortality following an acute coronary syndrome in a universal health care system. METHODS AND RESULTS We studi...

Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across all U.S. communities. In this paper we describe and evaluate several indicators of child care availability that have been released by the U.S. Census Bur...

Characterizing variations in substance use by youth residing in rural areas is not a straightforward undertaking due in part to difficulties in defining rural, and in part to differences in community characteristics across whatever definition is used. The primary purpose of this chapter is to compare data on the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use by 8th and 12th graders across four sizes ...

This research analyzes manufacturing growth and decline across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions during the 1972–2002 period. We decompose real value added growth across local labor market areas in the lower 48 U.S. states into contributions from labor, capital, and total factor productivity. We then estimate a model describing the long-run growth of labor, capital, and productivity and ...