Rural people in New Mexico must travel three to four times further than urban residents for important hospital-based health care services. Rural areas with high concentrations of Native people and people in poverty face even greater distances.

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

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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