A study of persons with medical care needs among selected rural families in Pulaski County, Virginia

It has been the purpose of this study to determine the medical care needs among rural Pulaski County folks in relation to tenure, land class, and occupations which are indicative of income, age and sex, schooling of the homemaking, size of family or household, distance from medical personnel and facilities, and loss of income through absenteeism from wrong because of illness. The expenditures for six types of medical care and health insurance were also studied in relation to the factors above.