Rural Society and Barriers to Well-Being
Service availability, access, and delivery are universal problems every society faces. Invariably, some members of any society are unable to access all of the services they need. This article identifies crucial factors that create service access barriers by using a modified Social Fabric Matrix (SFM...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-43251 2023-10-09T21:53:01+02:00 Rural Society and Barriers to Well-Being Edwards, Wayne Natarajan, Tara 2009 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43251 eng eng University of Alaska Anchorage Saint Michael's College, USA Umeå : Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society Journal of Northern Studies, 1654-5915, 2009, 2, s. 85-100 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43251 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Alaska well-being Alaska Native capability Social Fabric Matrix (SFM) rural Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2009 ftumeauniv 2023-09-22T13:46:27Z Service availability, access, and delivery are universal problems every society faces. Invariably, some members of any society are unable to access all of the services they need. This article identifies crucial factors that create service access barriers by using a modified Social Fabric Matrix (SFM) methodology. The components of the matrix go to the core of the question of well-being and are ideally suited to clarifying access rigidities. The primary result of the described research is that, while measures of service access rigidities are broadly consistent with other measures in explaining geographical variation in well-being, access rigidity measures also reveal differences not seen in other analyses. Article in Journal/Newspaper Journal of Northern Studies Alaska Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) |
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Service availability, access, and delivery are universal problems every society faces. Invariably, some members of any society are unable to access all of the services they need. This article identifies crucial factors that create service access barriers by using a modified Social Fabric Matrix (SFM) methodology. The components of the matrix go to the core of the question of well-being and are ideally suited to clarifying access rigidities. The primary result of the described research is that, while measures of service access rigidities are broadly consistent with other measures in explaining geographical variation in well-being, access rigidity measures also reveal differences not seen in other analyses. |
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