Books

Textbook Of Rural Medicine
By John P. Geyman, Thomas E. Norris and L. Gary Hart, editors
McGraw Hill, 2000, 487 pages
Written by four members of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, a leader in rural health care. Focuses on special clinical problems and approaches common to rural care, augmented by practical information on management and organization issues, as well as rural and family medicine education.

Telemedicine in Hospitals: Issues in Implementation
By Sherry Emery, Garland Publishing, 1998, 155 pages
Directs attention to three crucial questions: whether telemedicine improves rural health delivery, what role it plays in the economics of the health-care industry, and how necessary effective telemedicine government programs are. Describes the technology's current diffusion and identifies keys to success, noting that it has not yet benefited rural health because small hospitals generally lack the necessary financial and technical expertise to adopt it.

Handbook of Rural Health
by Sana Loue and Beth E. Quill, Editors
Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2001, 307 p.
A cross-disciplinary examination of rural health and rural health care research this handbook includes coverage of public health issues and issues of quality in health care, and the health care issues of specific populations such as Native Americans.

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