Pong R W, DesMeules M, Heng D, Lagacé C, Guernsey J R, Kazanjian A, Manuel D, Pitblado J R, Bollman R, Koren I, Dressler M P, Wang F, Luo W
Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Chronic Dis Inj Can. 2011 Fall;31 Suppl 1:1-36.
Canadians value ease of access to their health services. Although many studies have focused on accessibility to health services in Canada, few have examined rural-urban differences in this aspect, particularly from a national perspective. Yet disparities in access to health services exist between rural and urban populations, as do the challenges of delivering health care to more remote areas or to those with small populations. "Canada's Rural Communities: Understanding Rural Health and Its Determinants" is a three-year research project co-funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It involves investigators from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR) at Laurentian University, and other researchers. The first publication of the research project was How Healthy Are Rural Canadians? An Assessment of Their Health Status and Health Determinants; this, the second publication, is a descriptive analysis of the utilization patterns of a broad range of health services by rural residents compared to their urban counterparts.
加拿大人重视获得医疗服务的便利性。尽管许多研究关注加拿大医疗服务的可及性，但很少有研究从城乡差异的角度，特别是从全国范围来考察这一方面。然而，农村和城市人口在获得医疗服务方面存在差距，向更偏远地区或人口稀少地区提供医疗服务也面临挑战。“加拿大农村社区：理解农村健康及其决定因素”是一个为期三年的研究项目，由加拿大卫生信息研究所（CIHI）的加拿大人口健康倡议（CPHI）和加拿大公共卫生署（PHAC）共同资助。该项目涉及加拿大公共卫生署、劳伦森大学农村和北方卫生研究中心（CRaNHR）的研究人员以及其他研究人员。该研究项目的第一篇出版物是《加拿大农村居民健康状况如何？对其健康状况和健康决定因素的评估》；这第二篇出版物是对农村居民与城市居民相比广泛使用各类医疗服务的模式进行的描述性分析。
