Urban/Rural Differences in Elderly's Use of Health Care
Bruce Stuart, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Dennis G. Shea, Assistant Professor of
Health Policy and Administration
Joseph J. Vasey, Research Associate, Institute for Policy Research and
Evaluation
Vincent X. Rabatin, Research Assistant, Institute for Policy Research and
Evaluation
The purpose of this project was to measure the urban/rural utilization differentials in both probability of use and level of use among elderly persons for outpatient physician contacts (by site, physician specialty, referral status, and medical reason for visit) and prescription drug use (by medical reason for the Rx and number of scripts per physician contact) during 1992. In addition, the project determined the sensitivity of the differentials to alternative urban/rural typologies.