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Designating Places & Populations as Medically Underserved: A Proposal for a New Approach

Figure 1. Summary of weights for barrier factors 

The chart includes Score Assigned to Percentile Chart and Percentiles of the following barrier factors:

  • Poverty
  • Unemp
  • Elderly
  • Density
  • Hispanic
  • NonWhite
  • DeathRate
  • IMR/LBW