Kansas Department of Health and Environment Medically Underserved Areas/Population http://www.kdheks.gov/olrh/SD_medically_underserved.htm
Sponsor:	Kansas Department of Health
Mission:	Medically underserved areas and populations - definitions, evaluation of criteria  and guidelines.
Focus:	The designation of Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Populations (MUPs), based on the Index of Medical Underservice (IMU), published in the Federal Register on October 15, 1976. This involves application of the Index of Medical Underservice (IMU) to data on a service area to obtain a score for the area. The IMU scale is from 0 to 100, where 0 represents completely underserved and 100 represents best served or least underserved. Under the established criteria, each service area found to have an IMU of 62.0 or less qualifies for designation as an MUA.  The IMU involves four variables - ratio of primary medical care physicians per 1,000 population, infant mortality rate, percentage of the population with incomes below the poverty level, and percentage of the population age 65 or over
Resources:	Links to Charitable Health Care, rural health, farmworker health, grants, scholarships, refugee health, practioner and student recruitment.
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