Out in the rural [electronic resource] : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty / Thomas J. Ward Jr. ; with a foreword by H. Jack Geiger.

'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...

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Main Author: Ward, Thomas J., Jr., 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Geiger, H. Jack (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
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Out in the rural : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty

Authors: Ward, Thomas J., Jr., 1969-
Published: Oxford University Press, 2017
Physical Description: xxv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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