Open AccessAn evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs: I. A typology of practice organizations.
Author(s) -
C G Sheps,
Edward H. Wagner,
Warren H. Schonfeld,
Gordon H. DeFriese,
Miriam E. Bachar,
Edward F. Brooks,
Dennis B. Gillings,
Priscilla A. Guild,
Thomas R. Konrad,
Curtis P. McLaughlin,
Thomas C. Ricketts,
Conrad Seipp,
Jane Stein
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.73.1.38
Subject(s) - typology , subsidy , primary care , principal (computer security) , business , public economics , medicine , family medicine , political science , sociology , economics , computer science , operating system , anthropology , law
The design of a comprehensive evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs on a large national scale is described, Its major purpose is to derive data whose analysis will answer major policy questions about the factors influencing the outcome of the major types of such programs in different communities. This first paper also delineates a typology which was developed of five principal organizational forms of these programs. This classification appears to provide suitable operational definitions of forms of rural practice as a basis for evaluating the differential impact of alternative types of primary care programs.