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Workforce Issues in Rural Areas: A Focus on Policy Equity

Thomas C. Ricketts, PhD, MPH

Thomas C. Ricketts is with the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Active physicians per 100 000 population, by year and location (urban or rural).

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Nonmetropolitan primary care health professional shortage area designations, 1980–2001. Note. FTE = full-time equivalent. Data were derived from the Bureau of Health Professions.6

 




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