Notes

*Telehealth is receiving a diagnosis or treatment remotely from a doctor or other health professional — for example, via phone, email, text messaging, a mobile app or live video.

Source: NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Life in Rural America — Part II" survey of 1,405 adults living in the rural United States, conducted Jan. 1-March 2. The margin of error for the full sample is +/- 3.5 percentage points. "Don’t know/refused" responses not shown. For purposes of this poll, "rural" was defined as areas that are not part of a Metropolitan Statistical Area, as used in the 2016 National Exit Poll.

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