Rurality Literature Review: Building "Rurality" into Health System Funding Formula
B. Minore, M.E. Hill, I. Pugliese, and T. Gauld

The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) commissioned CRaNHR to conduct a focussed literature review related to rural health care funding issues, service delivery and equity issues. The review, completed in 2008, identified four broad themes that shape policy and funding decisions regarding rural services: definitions of rurality, rural health service issues, rural costs, and rural funding formulae. This report provides a summary of the information in these four areas, highlighting examples which illustrate the technical and practical difficulties involved in developing appropriate measures to identify and address rural health service delivery issues.

(commissioned by the North West Local Health Integration Network)

[Report available at: http://www.northwestlhin.on.ca.]



(Names in bold denote CRaNHR investigators and research staff.)