Do you live in a rural area? For most of us, that question is relatively easy to answer. We can simply look outside of our ...

Background The advent of patient-centered care challenges policy makers, health care administrators, clinicians, and patient advocates to understand the factors that contribute to effective ...

The chart (top of article) provided by the Census Bureau shows that the raw number of rural residents has remained relatively stable, using the Census definition, over the last century. But the ...

Federal agencies, researchers, and publications like the Daily Yonder frequently use the nonmetropolitan definition as a basis for determining which counties are rural. The proposed revision in the ...