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- Title
CONTACTS WITH AND CONCEPTION OF THE PHYSICIAN IN A RURAL SETTING.
- Authors
McNamara, Robert L.; Hassinger, Edward
- Abstract
To secure data on public-physician relations, interviews were conducted in 152 households selected randomly from the open-country population of an Ozark county in Missouri. The people and their physicians were separated by considerable geographical and social distance. Households varied widely in number of professional contacts with doctors. Few contacts were in the patients' homes. Most likely to report having a family doctor were younger households with three or more members. Least likely to report a family doctor were older households with a low level-of-living score. Households were classified as primary, secondary, or alienated in orientation toward physicians. There was a relationship between reporting a family doctor and type of orientation. This was more apparent in the older households than in the younger ones. The alienated orientation was concentrated in the older households with a low level of living. This was interpreted as an indication of failure to adjust to changing conditions in public-physician relations.
- Subjects
OZARK (Mo.); MISSOURI; UNITED States; PHYSICIANS; HOUSEHOLDS; SOCIAL interaction; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL distance; RURAL geography
- Publication
Rural Sociology, 1957, Vol 22, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0036-0112
- Publication type
Article