Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers – Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America

In the discussions leading to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Care Reform requested research and policy analysis studies on a variety of key rural health care issues. This compendium is a collection of those research studies. Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America presents the studies according to subject matter from health insurance and its financing to health workforce. The Office of Rural Health Policy is releasing this compendium to fuel continuing discussion of the challenges facing rural communities as they implement health systems reform generated by the PPACA and by other policy changes. To access the compendium, click here.