Health in Rural Settings: Contexts for Action.(Book Review)

RAMP, WILLIAM, J. KULIG, I. TOWNSHEND, AND V. MCGOWAN (eds.). Health in Rural Settings: Contexts for Action (University of Lethbridge, 1999, 311 pp.) Paper (no price).

Sixteen authors contributed to this wide-ranging discussion of rural health at the "Health In Rural Settings" conference at the University of Lethbridge in 1998. Their work is intended not as a listing of needs or policy recommendations, but as an incentive for policy makers, rural residents, and community health providers to explore their interconnected roles and common problems. For the most part, the tone of the articles reflects a realization that "rural health" must be examined from an individual and community viewpoint. Rural in this sense is not just a geographic or administrative …