Working Papers on Rural Community Services.

The papers in this document represent statements prepared by scholars involved in various stages of 4 multi-state regional research projects on rural community services and presented at a 1971 national workshop on research problems in delivery of community services. The 2 major foci of these papers are (1) problems of measurement and assessment of adequacy of community services and (2) organization of service delivery systems. The 8 papers included are Problems of Measurement and Assessment of the Adequacy of Community Services: A Naive Viewpoint; Adequacy of Community Services: A Measurement Problem; Theoretical Concerns in the Measurement of Adequacy of Community Services and How to Assess Them in the Rural Areas; Rural Development and the Quality of Life in the Rural South: Concepts and Indicators in the S-79 Regional Project; Some Methodological Considerations for Rural Community Services Research; Organization of Public Service Delivery Systems for Rural Areas; Some Relevant Concerns and Issues in Research on Personal Health Delivery Systems with Special Emphasis on Nonmetropolitan Areas; and, Housing Quality: Measurement and Assessment. (PS)