A Community Capitals Framework for Identifying Rural Adaptation in Maternal-Child Home Visiting

Jennifer Whittaker1, Katherine Kellom, Meredith Matone

  • 1Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholars Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey (Ms Whittaker); PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Mss Whittaker and Kellom and Dr Matone); Department of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Ms Whittaker); Departments of Pediatrics (Dr Matone) and Family Medicine and Community Health (Dr Cronholm), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Drs Matone and Cronholm); and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Ms Whittaker and Drs Matone and Cronholm).

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