The goal of the Urban-Rural Healthcare Access dashboard is to show how healthcare access and usage differ between urban and rural areas in Georgia. Healthcare access is looked at from four different angles:
Medical care access: This involves how often people use medical services and how far they travel for different types of healthcare facilities and specialists, as well as for common medical procedures.
Dental care access: This shows how often people use preventive or diagnostic dental services, how far they travel for these services, and the percentage of people getting at least one or two preventive or diagnostic dental check-ups a year.
Procedure availability: This part includes data on the number of medical services done, their costs, and how far people travel to get these services. You can see details for specific medical procedures and diagnosis-related groups.
Provider availability: This shows the number of healthcare providers by different specialties (in total and for active or full time equivalent providers), the number of providers per 100,000 people, and how far people travel to see these providers in each county.
You can filter and view these metrics by different years, payers, geographic areas (like county and region), and by measures of social vulnerability