The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice / American Board of Family Practice
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J Am Board Fam Pract · Sep 1995
Relation of infant mortality to the availability of maternity care in rural Florida.
This cross-sectional study was designed to explore the impact of the availability of maternity care services on the infant mortality rates in nonmetropolitan (rural) counties in Florida. ⋯ Access to maternity care for women in rural Florida is a problem that could be hampering Florida's ability to reduce its infant mortality rate. Family physicians appear to be the most geographically distributed health care providers in Florida; therefore, strategies should be developed to recruit Florida's rural family physicians into maternity care.