title: Mail-order medicine; An analysis of the Sears Roebuck Foundation's Community Medical Assistance Program.
abstract: Of the 625 rural communities that originally applied to the Sears Roebuck Foundation's Community Medical Assistance Program, 253 were accepted. One hundred sixty-three went on to build clinics, and 132 had physicians at the time of follow-up. From the standpoint of physician coverage of the community once a clinic had been built, the rate of physician availability was 78 percent, The communities' success in recruiting and retaining physicians was compared against 13 variables; none was significantly related to the recruitment, and only two--numbers of service clubs and distance to nearest physician--were related to retention.
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D005381:Financing, Organized; D005582:Foundations; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006280:Health Workforce; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D012423:Rural Health; D014481:United States