A national call to action: CDC's 2001 Urban and Rural Health Chartbook.
It remains to be seen if Congress will recognize the CDC report as a national call to action, or whether future CDC reports will simply record the ongoing health disparities of rural America. Regardless of the Congressional outcome in 2002, the CDC report clearly succeeds in moving the national debate on rural concerns beyond the political rhetoric and into a data-driven debate.
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Alan
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Government Affairs and Policy, National Rural Health Association, Washington, DC 20036, USA. Morgan@NRHArural.org
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