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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, 374-376, June 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Handbook of Rural Health

Sana Loue and Beth E. Quill (eds) Kluwer/Plenum, New York, 2001 370 pp, ISBN 0-306-46479-9, $90

Craig H. Blakely

Department of Health Policy and Management
School of Rural Public Health
Texas A & M University System Health Science Center
Bryan, TX 77802 USA

The strength of an edited volume always hinges on the quality of the individual chapters, the format and content, and the relevance of the work to those of us working in the targeted field of inquiry. I shall comment on each of these dimensions in turn.

Loue and Quill have assembled chapter authors who have made substantive contributions to their respective fields. Any text that begins with a chapter on rural health policy by Keith Mueller is starting off on the right foot. Mueller raises the issue of the overarching battle to either . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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