Educational Attainment a Key Factor in Rural Patient Uptake of Telehealth Activities

Peter L. Stenberg

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. November 2018, issue 10

Abstract: Compared to traditional medical delivery systems, telehealth allows people to actively participate in their health care and also facilitates more timely and convenient monitoring of ongoing conditions. An ERS study found that education is strongly associated with telehealth participation, which increased with each successively higher level of educational attainment in 2015.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302667

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