Definition and categorization of rural and assessment of realized access to care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine how three measures of realized access to care vary by definitions and categorizations of "rural".

Data sources

Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data, a nationally representative survey assessing knowledge of health-related information, were used. Participants were categorized by county-based Urban Influence Codes (UICs), Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCCs), and census tract-based Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCAs).

Study design

Three approaches were used across categories of UICs, RUCCs, and RUCAs: (1) non-metropolitan/metropolitan, (2) three-group categorization based upon population size, and (3) three-group categorization based on adjacency to metropolitan areas. Wald Chi-square tests evaluated differences in sociodemographic v

SUBMITTER: Zahnd WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108055 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature