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Where you live matters: Challenges and opportunities to address the urban–rural divide through innovative secondary cardiac rehabilitation programs

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Sangster, J., Furber, S., Phongsavan, P., Allman-Farinelli, M., Redfern, J. and Bauman, A.
  • Editors: David Perkins
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal Number: Vol. 21 No. 3
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • ISBN: 1440-1584
  • Country: Australia
Only one third of clinically eligible patients attend a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. Few studies have looked at participation in rural cardiac patients. This paper examines the risk profile and participation in CR of rural and urban residents with cardiac disease who enrolled in a telephone coaching program.

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