One in Three Americans Live in a Health Care Desert. Here’s What You Need to Know
Inspired by the concept of the “food desert” as outlined by the USDA, GoodRx uses driving time to define multiple types of health care deserts in the United States: Pharmacy deserts, where the average drive time to the three closest pharmacies exceeds 15 minutes Hospital, low-cost health center and trauma-center deserts, where it takes more than 30, 20 or 60 minutes to drive to each of these types of facilities, respectively Hospital bed deserts, where local hospitals have fewer than two beds per 1,000 residents Primary care deserts, where more than 50% of the population lives in a primary care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), indicating a low population-to-health care provider ratio as well as high poverty rates, infant mortality rates or low birthweights and long travel times to provider facilities https://www.valuepenguin.com/news/health-care-deserts-on-rise -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbnrkzKZb41n2xH2CZuq1oHzsrnyjs%2B-B_V-8bqvuS8uw%40mail.gmail.com.
