@article{Pender:338906,
      recid = {338906},
      author = {Pender, John},
      title = {Healthcare Professionals Seek Social Connections When  Moving to Rural Towns},
      journal = {Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural  Resources, and Rural America},
      address = {2023-05-08},
      number = {1490-2023-1826},
      month = {May},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {When choosing rural locations in which to practice,  healthcare professionals most often cite social factors  such as the friendliness of the town, according to a survey  administered by researchers at USDA, Economic Research  Service and Iowa State University. Similar factors come  into play when they decide to stay in their rural small  towns, the survey showed. More than 900 physicians, nurse  practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse  midwives, and dentists responded to the survey, conducted  in 2014 and 2015. They lived in 150 rural small towns in  Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi,  Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin. For rural communities to  attract and retain healthcare professionals, researchers  found that factors in decisions to locate and stay in rural  small towns usually included the following: personal and  professional relationships (known as social capital),  people-related resources such as education, skills, and  health (human capital), and physical capital such as the  town’s infrastructure and medical facilities.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338906},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338906},
}