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This study mapped rural-urban disparities in access and quality of healthcare in Japan. These findings highlight the need to evaluate rural-urban disparities in the "outcomes" of care in primary care settings in Japan and the lack of common indicators of rurality.
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Kaneko et al. (2025) studied this question.
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