The utilization of an outreach primary care health service provided by nurse practitioners to the migrant farm work population on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 1984 was examined by migrants’ethnicity, gender, and age. Seventy percent of a population of Black, Mexican American, and Haitian workers and dependents were seen in 5,937 camp encounters. The population and first‐encounter patient distributions were equivalent except for gender: relatively more moles than females received service. First‐ and subsequent‐encounter distributions were disproportional for ethnicity, gènder, and age: subsequent service was provided more frequently to Blacks, females, and patients over 30 years of age. High penetration and subsequent rates were obtained for this comprehensive, readily accessible health service. Copyright © 1986, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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education health service social aspect rural area geographic distribution primary medical care nurse practitioner ethnology gender organization and management health care utilization United States human migrant age