Issue Brief
  1. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of 2015 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates.

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  2. Michael Meit et al., The 2014 Update of the Rural-Urban Chartbook, (Bethesda, MD: The North Dakota and NORC Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center, October 2014), https://ruralhealth.und.edu/projects/health-reform-policy-research-center/pdf/2014-rural-urban-chartbook-update.pdf.

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  3. Jane Wishner et al., A look at Rural Hospital Closures and Implications for Access to Care: Three Case Studies, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, July 2016), https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/a-look-at-rural-hospital-closures-and-implications-for-access-to-care/.

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  4. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of 2015 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates.

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  5. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/slide/state-medicaid-expansion-approaches/

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  6. Jane Wishner et al., A look at Rural Hospital Closures and Implications for Access to Care: Three Case Studies, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, July 2016), https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/a-look-at-rural-hospital-closures-and-implications-for-access-to-care/.

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  7. Brigitte Waldorf and Ayoung Kim, Defining and Measuring Rurality in the US: From Typologies to Continuous Indices, (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics, April 2015), http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_168031.pdf.

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  8. Missouri Census Data Center Geographic Correspondence Engine, http://mcdc.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr12.html.

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