Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's a really good question. Certainly the issues facing our rural communities differ in many ways from those in urban communities, as we all know. Health status there, depending on what rural community you happen to live in, may be quite different from that in urban communities.
We know, when we look across the country at health outcomes, that there are differences between urban and rural communities, and therefore we are looking differently at those communities and the types of interventions that work specifically for those communities. It's back to the adage that one size doesn't fit all. We need to consider access to health services in those communities; we need to consider the incentives for physical activity in those communities and how we, as a federal government, provide the research underpinnings and the information around what works when we're looking at chronic disease prevention in those communities.