RURAL HEALTH EQUITY & COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS across the
DIGITAL DIVIDE in RURAL VIRGINIA
Laura Fails - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2021
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The Coming Together Again Safely Campaign & Vaccine Clinic
for Nelson County, Virginia
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Health Equity is often defined as:
1) equitable access to health care based on equal need,
2) health care utilization matched for equal need,
3) equal quality of care for all.
Challenges to rural communities:
- lack of broadband internet & access to information,
- lack of public transportation,
- economic tolls such as lost wages from taking time off from work
