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Rural Health
Research Asked
Health services for rural areas
need high priority research in
four aspects organization,
manpower, utilization, and
financing declared Dr. Charles
0. Crawford of The Pennsylvania
State University recently at a
National Workshop on Com
munity Services in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Such health services tend to
lack coordination and integration
in the more rural areas of the
country, Dr. Crawford observed.
He suggested that a “three tier
system,” now being advanced in
many circles, be studied further
for adaption to rural areas.
The “three tiers,” he said, are
first level care in physicians’
offices, clinics, and local health
centers, secondary care in
cluding community hospitals,
and the third area of
sophisticated medical centers.
Dr. Crawford spoke as associate
professor of rural sociology at
Penn State.
Rural areas need greater use of
physicians’ assistants, nurses,
and similar types of support
personnel, he pointed out.
Manpower studies should be
undertake to determine how
these types of persons can by
utilized most efficiently, he
added Acceptance and use of
these persons by physicians
should be determined, as well as
acceptability of such new
positions by patients.
“Many rural persons remain in
good health and have very
adequate mechanisms for
dealing with sickness and
disease. We need to build on these
in our planning and action
programs. We should not attempt
to replace the old entirely with
something new,” he advised.
Along this line he suggested
that general practitioners,
backed up with good facilities
and suitable surroundings of
primary care centers, might be
more readily available to meet
the demand. As for financing, he
indicated that organization and
financing are very closely
related.
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