Improving Health Care for Rural Veterans
The Summer 2017 edition of VA FORUM highlights research pointing to advances in addressing the unique needs of rural Veterans.
Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.