Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
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Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations. In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190624620
ISBN13:9780190624620
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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