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Congress creates multiple bodies to focus on rural health needs.

1987

The Story of Rural Health
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These include the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services, state offices of rural health, and multiple rural health research centers. These bodies are created in response to the profound gap between urban and real health infrastructure, with the intention of ensuring that federal state healthcare planning is inclusive of rural experiences and assessing and meeting rural healthcare needs.