Rural people in North Carolina, and especially parents with ill infants and children, must travel quite far to seek hospital-based care compared to urban residents.

Average number of miles to specific type of hospital-based health care service from center of census tract in North Carolina

Sources: Data on hospital services is from the American Hospital Association Survey. Files used for mapping are from the National Historical Geographic Information System.
Data analysis by Hannah Friedman, Ph.D. student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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