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The major issues revolving around the need can be
summarized simply as distances, lack of local expertise, high cost of delivery in rural
areas. The problems of delivery of Rehabilitation Service provision in rural areas
parallels the delivery of health care to rural areas where the proportion of people with
chronic illnesses is higher and the means to pay for them is reduced services
(Witherspoon, Johnston, & Wasem, 1993). Large distances mean long travel times
increasing costs associated with any service delivery and the time of travel consumes
valuable time skilled professionals could be using to provide services. |