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---DRAFT COPY-- Comparing rural health and health care in Canada and the United States: The influence of federalism. Joe Blankenau Wayne State College Wayne NE 68787 joblank1@wsc.edu Rural health and health care in Canada and the United States is compared by employing five conceptual lenses of federalism; the structure of federations the sociological underpinnings of federations political economy political parties and constitutional reform and judicial review (Burgess 2006). Despite differences in their political and health systems the analysis shows
END NOTES 1 Defining what is rural is complex and generally contested. For instance studies employing different measures of rural have reported between 22% to 38% of Canada’s population as rural (PHAC 2006). There is also considerable variation of the definition of rural in the United States. In this research the definition of rural is dependent upon the resource which is arguably not the best condition but the only possible for examining a wide array of resources. 2 Canada’s