Gillanders W R, Buss T F
Department of Family Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown.
J Fam Pract. 1993 Oct;37(4):349-55.
Conventional wisdom holds that the elderly living in rural areas suffer poor health and have limited access to health care compared with their urban peers. The relation between poor health and limited access, however, has yet to be adequately defined.
We conducted a telephone survey of 1000 elderly persons living in four rural northeastern Ohio counties using a proportional random-digit dialing method.
Many rural elderly respondents appeared to suffer poor health and have limited access to medical care. However, a detailed analysis revealed that poor health and limited access were more perceptual than actual.
Elderly persons living independently in rural northeast Ohio have much better health and access to care than suggested by the literature.
传统观点认为，与城市老年人相比，农村老年人健康状况较差，获得医疗保健的机会有限。然而，健康状况不佳与获得机会有限之间的关系尚未得到充分界定。
我们采用按比例随机数字拨号法，对俄亥俄州东北部四个农村县的1000名老年人进行了电话调查。
许多农村老年受访者似乎健康状况不佳，获得医疗服务的机会有限。然而，详细分析表明，健康状况不佳和获得机会有限更多是一种认知而非实际情况。
独立生活在俄亥俄州东北部农村的老年人的健康状况和获得医疗服务的机会比文献中所表明的要好得多。
