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Washington Rural Health Assessment Project

The Washington Rural Health Assessment Project is a series of short papers and fact sheets summarizing  important trends influencing health status and health care access in rural Washington.

For further information or for electronic copies of documents, please contact:

Zeynep Shorter

Telephone: 360-236-2806

Email: zeynep.shorter@doh.wa.gov

What's Different About Rural Health?  (February 2006):  (pdf 939KB)  This three page fact sheet summarizes demographic, economic, and health status differences between urban and rural communities in Washington State.

Additional Web Resources

Link references to external resources are provided as a public service and do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health.  Please note that this is not an exhaustive list.

• Rural Assistance Center - Directory of Rural Research Centers: www.raconline.org/rhin/group.php?group_id=200
• Rural Briefing Rooms - U.S. Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service: www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/
• WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (University of Washington): www.depts.washington.edu/uwrhrc/
• Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI): www.rupri.org/
• North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis: www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/
• Rural Families Data Center: www.prb.org/rfdcenter/
• Health, United States, 2005 - The Chart Book on Trends in the Health of the Americans - National Center for Health Statistics: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus05.pdf
   

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