Physician manpower for rural America

Physician incomes in rural and urban America.

Amid concerns that too few physicians practice in many rural areas, lower income potential is cited as one obstacle to attracting and retaining rural physicians. Congress has responded by increasing Medicare payment rates to virtually all physicians practicing in rural areas. However, average physician incomes in rural and urban areas do not differ significantly, even after accounting for diffe...

From America: manpower, money, and cookbook medicine.

The primary care physician workforce in Massachusetts: implications for the workforce in rural, small town America.

CONTEXT Small towns across the United States struggle to maintain an adequate primary care workforce. PURPOSE To examine factors contributing to physician satisfaction and retention in largely rural areas in Massachusetts, a state with rural pockets and small towns. METHODS A survey mailed in 2004-2005 to primary care physicians, practicing in areas designated by the state as rural, queried...

Defining Regions for Rural America

shape how we think. Regional definitions color the way we understand rural America, rural change, and rural prospects. Regional definitions trigger financial flows and program eligibility. At issue is not whether to opt into the region idea. We readily create regions to suit the human purposes of discovering order, appraising conditions, exercising control, prescribing change, and expressing id...

Financing Rural America

After a steep recession in the 1980s, many rural places are mounting a strong economic comeback in the 1990s. Rural counties, for instance, have added jobs in the 1990s at about 1.8 percent annually, compared with meager gains in the 1980s. And some counties, especially trade centers or those with scenic amenities that have attracted retirees and tourists, are posting stronger growth than metro...