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rural health  

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  • What constitutes rural in healthcare depends on the definition being used for rurality, and that is sometimes dependent on the type of healthcare being delivered. There currently is no consensus definition of what rural is in the United States, either for health or for other policy domains. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Rural Health]

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