• The disparity in utilization of preventive care services between urban and rural in China is a serious issue. (edu.au)
  • In this paper, we explored factors associated with urban-rural disparity in utilization of preventive care services in China, and determined how much of the urban-rural disparity was attributable to each determinant of utilization in preventive care services. (edu.au)
  • Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method was applied to divide the utilization of preventive care disparity between urban and rural residents into a part that can be explained by differences in observed covariates and unobserved part. (edu.au)
  • Efforts to reduce financial barriers for low-income individuals who cannot afford preventive services, increasing awareness of the importance of obtaining preventive health services and providing more preventive health services covered by health insurance, may help to reduce the gap of preventive care services utilization between urban and rural. (edu.au)
  • Purpose: This study estimates the rural-urban differences in outpatient service utilization and expenditures for depression, anxiety disorder, and substance use disorder, and the evolving mental health provider mix for privately insured US adults aged 18-64 during 2005-2018. (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • A Systematic Review Evaluating Disparities in State-Run Quitline Utilization and Effectiveness in the U.S. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Analyzes patient utilization of rural versus urban outpatient clinics. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Includes statistics and discussion of clinic utilization in relation to rural healthcare disparities. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Recognizing health-related differences that predated the pandemic could help rural and urban communities develop strategies to leverage community assets to support community and economic health. (richmondfed.org)
  • Rural and urban communities alike have experienced an overdose crisis , but there are some known differences in access to treatment and general health care. (air.org)
  • AIR and IMPAQ experts analyzed data from a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) study to further understand differences between rural and urban areas. (air.org)
  • Based on our analysis, there are several significant differences between urban and rural counties in terms of need for and access to buprenorphine. (air.org)
  • Identifying urban-rural differences in HIV care outcomes is crucial for addressing HIV-related dis- parities among Black persons with HIV infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural-urban disparities in access to treatment differed by geographic region, further indicating the complex and multivariate nature of rural-urban differences in care compared to other disparities that may exist at the local level. (mdnewsline.com)
  • This study reports on the differences of the urban versus rural bus services. (iium.edu.my)
  • Differences in rural-urban practice styles and quality-of-care in nursing homes (NHs) were demonstrated in prior studies, but little is known about variations in end-of-life (EOL) quality. (confex.com)
  • Examines differences in child health conditions by rural and urban residency. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • OBJECTIVE: We aim to evaluate the impact gynecologic oncologists have on ovarian cancer adjuvant chemotherapy care from their role as surgeons recommending adjuvant chemotherapy care and their role as adjuvant chemotherapy providers while considering rural-urban differences. (cdc.gov)
  • The barriers and benefits of having a gynecologic oncologist involved in adjuvant chemotherapy care, including rural-urban differences, warrant further research in other populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Racial and ethnic health disparities continue to persist between the five largest racial groups in South Africa's post-Apartheid era. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conclusions: Rural-urban disparities in access to mental health services persist during 2005-2018 among a population with private insurance. (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • For the Fifth District overall, urban counties tend to rank higher than their rural counterparts on the health outcomes. (richmondfed.org)
  • People who live in rural areas have less access to mental-health services, more stigma surrounding help-seeking and freer access to guns than their urban counterparts. (time.com)
  • More rural survivors also received definitive care within one month of diagnosis than did their large metro counterparts. (mdnewsline.com)
  • Rural Americans face a range of alarming health disparities compared to their urban counterparts. (researchamerica.org)
  • Among those who used outpatient mental health services, rural enrollees had fewer outpatient visits than their urban counterparts (difference: 1.8-2.4 visits for depression, 1.2-1.7 visits for anxiety disorder, and 0.7-2.1 visits for substance use disorder). (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • The gap in socioeconomic status between racial groups in South Africa has been a key contributor to health disparities, with White South Africans, a minority group, having overall better health outcomes than majority Black South Africans. (wikipedia.org)
  • This program sought to eliminate barriers to health insurance due to socioeconomic status and remove disparities between the current two-tiered health system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cite this: Urban-Rural Disparity Seen in Continuous Glucose Monitor Use - Medscape - Nov 06, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • Hispanic/Latino Persons -- California, 2007-2017 percentage of late-stage diagnoses (25.2%) than did those in 240 Trends in Use of Telehealth Among Health Centers urban (21.9%) and metropolitan (19.0%) areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Healthcare professionals are mainly concentrated in urban centers, which leaves rural areas underserved. (wikipedia.org)
  • In rural areas, health centers are often understaffed, have low levels of supplies, and cannot perform the same procedures as other health centers located in urban areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rural Americans are more likely to die from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, and stroke than those living in urban areas. (researchamerica.org)
  • Most of the major centers and divisions across the federal offices do provide some sort of rural-focused funding. (researchamerica.org)
  • Report outlines the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan for improving health equity across the U.S. for racial and ethnic communities, rural communities, people with disabilities, and those living in poverty. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Johnson said Wisconsin continues to see racial and ethnic disparities in factors related to public health as well. (wpr.org)
  • The transformation of health care to online platforms thus intensifies health care disparities for older adults who are also racial/ethnic minorities. (kevinmd.com)
  • Conclusion: Hearing disability disparities in the U.S. exist for males, selected racial/ethnic groups, impoverished (Appalachia) and low-density rural geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Our analysis also explores geographic disparities among rural and urban counties by census regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) . (air.org)
  • The objective of this study was to investigate sociodemographic disparities in young females undergoing excision of a breast mass. (nih.gov)
  • Identifying and understanding the underlying causes of the health disparities among communities is key in designing effective public health policies and interventions (4). (cdc.gov)
  • Identifying disparities is a necessary first step towards improving care for dying NH residents. (confex.com)
  • In 2010, 17% of the U.S. population lived in rural (nonmetropolitan) areas. (cdc.gov)
  • The most urban category consists of large metropolitan central counties and the most rural category consists of nonmetropolitan noncore counties. (cdc.gov)
  • Perhaps most importantly, mortality rates between rural and urban residents have increased by 12% over the last 10 years. (researchamerica.org)
  • Higher levels of disability and mortality due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, diabetes, and cancer contribute to this disparity in minority groups. (kevinmd.com)
  • This article explores 8 federal rural definitions and the degree to which they identify the same areas as rural. (alivemaryland.org)
  • Explores limitations to address LGBTQIA+ health in rural communities, policy considerations, and policy recommendations to improve community-level disparities in LGBTQIA+ healthcare. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • P = .025) compared to those living in urban areas after adjusting for sex, race/ethnicity, A1c level, visit year, and insurance type. (medscape.com)
  • Prevalence of hearing disability was estimated from the 2012-2016 ACS by sex, age, race/ ethnicity, the economically-depressed Appalachian area, and the 2013 NCHS Urban-Rural County Classification. (cdc.gov)
  • To increase health equity across our rural communities, we need to assess what's going on, we need to work together, and we need research to back up what those proposed changes are going to be. (researchamerica.org)
  • 1) Assess rural-urban disparities in end-of-life care in nursing homes. (confex.com)
  • To assess water quality and water security in rural and urban areas of southern Brazil, a quantitative, retrospective analysis of water samples collected monthly by the Brazilian health authorities (19,687 samples from 2013 to 2021) was performed. (iwaponline.com)
  • Furthermore, it is not the case that rural-urban migration necessarily leads to better access to healthcare even for sons: some forms of migration may actually have an overall negative effect on child health outcomes. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This further exacerbates negative health outcomes considering the poorest income quintiles in South Africa live the farthest from health facilities and are likely to reside in rural provinces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rural-urban disparities in prostate cancer outcomes are relatively clear. (mdnewsline.com)
  • This study describes patient care experiences among rural and urban patients, as well as how they impact outcomes. (mdnewsline.com)
  • The results that this study presents show a complex picture of disparate outcomes and access to care, as well as patient care experiences, among rural and urban prostate cancer survivors. (mdnewsline.com)
  • There are "huge disparities in the care that they're receiving and the outcomes that they suffer, and these findings shed light on one contributor to that, which is access to the services that could potentially help them. (tctmd.com)
  • Lawnmower injuries in rural areas often result in worse outcomes," the researchers note. (minnpost.com)
  • Analyzes county-level health disparities by examining health factors and outcomes throughout the U.S. Covers living wages, gender pay gap, childcare costs, school funding, and more. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Offers policy recommendations to address health outcomes in rural populations. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Social support and depressive symptom disparity between urban and rural older adults in China. (bvsalud.org)
  • United Nations data on urban and rural populations by age and sex is combined with the Social Conflict Analysis Database to create a cross-section time series dataset. (demographic-research.org)
  • The percentage of out-of-school children is significantly higher in rural versus urban areas. (com.pk)
  • Rural women (versus urban) traveled 38miles farther when their chemotherapy provider was a gynecologic oncologist and 27miles farther when it was not. (cdc.gov)
  • In a retrospective study of electronic health records from a single diabetes program between 2018 and 2021, researchers compared the odds of completing a visit with or without a CGM interpretation between regions designated as rural-urban communing areas (RUCAs). (medscape.com)
  • Findings: Rural enrollees were less likely than urban enrollees to use outpatient mental health services for depression by 1.2% (percentage points) in 2005 and 0.6% in 2018. (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the health care infrastructure and highlighted rural-urban disparities in health and health care access across the country. (richmondfed.org)
  • While a major part of this miniscule fund goes into building urban healthcare infrastructure, rural healthcare, which is only of secondary importance in our administration's scheme of things, has to make do with whatever is left out from the health budget. (altlipi.com)
  • 1) urban planning typical of the US in the first half of the 20th Century that was focused on traffic and infrastructure, and (2) progressive urban planning focused on neighborhood livability and connections. (mdpi.com)
  • The urban poor are particularly vulnerable to the hazards of climate change as their access to infrastructure and services such as water supply and sanitation is often precarious [2]. (researchgate.net)
  • Moreover, the cost of developing infrastructure is huge in rural area but rural areas do not have funds to support this. (mapsofindia.com)
  • NCHS data systems are often used to study the association between urbanization level of residence and health and to monitor the health of urban and rural residents. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2013, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) revised and updated their Urban-Rural Classification Scheme of Counties, based on population density, to examine health disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • This article assesses the impact of rural-urban migration on gender disparities in children's access to healthcare in China and India. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Much less clear is the impact of the massive rural-urban migration now occurring in China and India on discrimination against daughters. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with rural migrant families in Shenzhen (China) and Mumbai (India), this article argues that where migration improves access to healthcare, it may increase rather than decrease the gender gap in treatment of child illness in the short term, as resources are concentrated on the treatment of sons. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • For these two reasons, development strategies focusing on large-scale rural-urban migration should not be seen as a short-term solution to problems of gender inequity in child health. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Making a Living in Rural Vietnam from (im)mobile Livelihoods: A Case of Women's Migration. (hslu.ch)
  • White cranes fly over black cranes': The Longue Durée of Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam. (hslu.ch)
  • Using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes with the County Health Rankings, we categorize each county as urban (Metro codes 1-2) or rural (Metro/Non-Metro codes 3-9). (richmondfed.org)
  • In anticipation of the Richmond Fed's Rural America Week, culminating in the Investing in Rural America Conference on October 8, this Regional Matters post examines the 2020 RWJF's County Health Rankings data to understand how health drivers in Fifth District rural and urban counties compared prior to the pandemic and how the impacts of COVID-19 may shift the landscape. (richmondfed.org)
  • How Do Rural and Urban Counties Rank in the Fifth District? (richmondfed.org)
  • Using this categorization, 215 counties are classified as rural, and 143 are urban. (richmondfed.org)
  • The distribution of counties by state quartile shows that urban counties disproportionately comprise the top quartile of health outcome rankings across the district. (richmondfed.org)
  • For instance, 56 percent of rural counties do not have a provider who can prescribe buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid use disorder. (air.org)
  • Rural and urban counties have similar needs for opioid use treatment, but disparities in access. (air.org)
  • Overall, 35 percent of rural counties and 37 percent of urban counties have a high need for opioid use disorder treatment. (air.org)
  • However, 74 percent of rural counties and 48 percent of urban counties have low-to-no capacity for buprenorphine. (air.org)
  • A larger proportion of high-need, low-to-no capacity counties are rural. (air.org)
  • For all four census regions, prevalence of high need and low-to-no capacity is higher among rural counties. (air.org)
  • Thirty-four percent of rural counties in the South and 21 percent of rural counties in the West are high need and low-to-no capacity. (air.org)
  • Many high-need counties, especially those in rural areas, have low-to-no capacity. (air.org)
  • Rural-urban disparities are most pronounced in the South and West, where rural areas have a higher prevalence of counties that are high need and low-to-no capacity by 13 and 10 percentage points, respectively. (air.org)
  • This report describes a six-level urban-rural classification scheme developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for the 3,141 U.S. counties and county-equivalents. (cdc.gov)
  • Includes data for metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural (nonmetro/nonmicro) counties on prevalence of any hypertension, chronic hypertension, pregnancy-related hypertension, and unspecified maternal hypertension. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Prior to the pandemic, many rural communities had been disproportionately impacted by health care workforce shortages along with social and economic barriers to health relative to urban communities. (richmondfed.org)
  • In rural communities, young people were more likely to use a gun - no coincidence, according to the study authors, since suicide rates in urban communities dropped alongside a decline in urban gun ownership. (time.com)
  • more than half of rural communities in the U.S. don't have a local mental-health worker like a psychiatrist or psychologist. (time.com)
  • Those who do have access to mental-health resources may be reluctant to use them because of stigma, and self-reliance is often seen as virtue in rural communities, the study says. (time.com)
  • Rural communities have come up with several. (uky.edu)
  • And that's both in rural and urban communities. (wpr.org)
  • Urbanization level has long been recognized as a key characteristic when studying health disparities among communities. (cdc.gov)
  • The article asks if the results of the two paradigms of urban planning were objectively different from one another in terms of impacts on minority and disadvantaged communities. (mdpi.com)
  • Urban and rural communities have a different level of access to information. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Apart from agriculture, VKCs also provide training and hold workshops for rural communities. (mapsofindia.com)
  • But a majority of Indians who are living in rural areas are the least benefited communities as they lack knowledge. (mapsofindia.com)
  • These concerns are as relevant for urban areas as for rural communities with limited access to the internet and health care professionals. (kevinmd.com)
  • Compared to primary schools, the number of secondary-level schools is much lower, especially in rural communities. (com.pk)
  • The UMCES Chesapeake Bay Report summarizes disparities among the watersheds' urban, suburban, and rural communities UMCES asserts that addressing environmental justice is crucial for the long-term health and sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (cdc.gov)
  • The North Carolina study includes both rural and urban areas, creating adequate representation by African-American and rural residents. (eurekalert.org)
  • Children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) living in rural areas are significantly less likely than those in urban areas to complete diabetes care visits in which continuous glucose monitor (CGM) data are used as part of patient care. (medscape.com)
  • These data suggest that pediatric diabetes providers should be aware of the potential barriers to CGM use experienced by patients living in rural areas and attempt to work together with patients to identify and develop strategies to overcome these barriers to optimal diabetes care. (medscape.com)
  • Dr. Bri Sheppard, associate director, Rural Health Workforce and Center Development, National Center for Rural Health Professions and Dr. Heidi Olsen, assistance professor and clinical pharmacist, both at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford recently joined us for an alliance discussion on rural health disparities. (researchamerica.org)
  • In this particular paper, the authors concluded that the definition of rural you should use depends on the goals of the program that you have, whether it's workforce or chronic conditions, to be able to make comparisons to previous literature. (researchamerica.org)
  • This is happening because India has an immense availability of well-educated, skilled and English-speaking workforce, but only in urban India. (mapsofindia.com)
  • and reducing health disparities through increasing healthcare capacity and workforce, among others. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • While rural India has ever been craving for affordable healthcare services, over the years successive governments at the Centre and in the states chose ignore their healthcare demand. (altlipi.com)
  • Children in rural areas also experienced higher rates of hospitalizations, infections and surgical complications. (minnpost.com)
  • The study, which looked at data from more than 66,000 young people ages 10 to 24 who died by suicide in the U.S., found that the gap between the urban and rural suicide rates grew significantly from 1996 to 2010. (time.com)
  • Geography may partially explain the difference between rural and urban suicide rates, according to the study. (time.com)
  • This retrospective cohort study, published in the journal Cancers , analyzes these patient care experiences among rural and urban patients with prostate cancer. (mdnewsline.com)
  • Rural-Urban Disparities in Patient Care Experiences among Prostate Cancer Survivors: A SEER-CAHPS Study. (mdnewsline.com)
  • For this purpose, this study extends the exploration of approximately 48 routes within selected urban and regional settlements in Peninsula Malaysia, using a quantitative traffic engineering measure known as Level of Service standards or LOS. (iium.edu.my)
  • In a study from 2021, they did a comparison of these different definitions and how they impact the severity of what we see as rural health disparities. (researchamerica.org)
  • A study in 2017 showed that less than 5% of all incoming medical students were from rural areas, and there's robust literature that shows individuals from rural areas are the most likely to go back and practice there. (researchamerica.org)
  • The study found that the incident rate of lawnmower injuries among children was about five times higher in rural areas than in urban ones. (minnpost.com)
  • Among the thousands of American children and teenagers who are injured by lawnmowers each year, those living in rural areas are most at risk, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons . (minnpost.com)
  • The study finds that a migrant-based youth bulge does not increase the likelihood of urban social conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. (demographic-research.org)
  • Conducting such analyses requires an urban-rural classification scheme. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural patients paid less per year for mental health outpatient visits of the 3 conditions but incurred a higher share of out-of-pocket expenses. (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • Caste system still persists in rural areas leading to great disparity among its people. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Disparities between rural and urban prostate cancer patients are already clear based on past research, but the way that this impacts patient care experiences is not clear. (mdnewsline.com)
  • Demand responsive transport: New insights from peri-urban experiences. (hslu.ch)
  • Rural hospitals, which often serve as important economic drivers and anchor institutions, have been closing or reducing services in areas that already faced barriers to health and health care access. (richmondfed.org)
  • Residents of rural areas also face significant barriers to health care , including long distances to health care facilities, lack of public transportation, lower average incomes, low health literacy, lack of health insurance, stigma, and lack of broadband internet to take advantage of recent expansion of telehealth services. (air.org)
  • Prostate cancer survivors from rural areas who did receive care reported better care access than other groups. (mdnewsline.com)
  • Disparities in health care access between rural and urban areas have been documented. (cdc.gov)
  • Additionally, and compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, we've seen a lot of rural hospital closures and a lot of change in the service mixes that are being provided by rural hospitals now, including a reduction in the number that are offering prenatal and maternal care and inpatient pediatric care. (researchamerica.org)
  • There are more than 99 million Americans that live in an area that doesn't have enough primary care providers, and 65% of those are rural. (researchamerica.org)
  • We provide empirical evidence for rural-urban disparities in EOL quality of care. (confex.com)
  • Left with no option, patients from rural hinterland flock to tertiary care units in urban centres as a last resort. (altlipi.com)
  • At that Conference, individuals and families will work with leading experts, researchers, and representatives of professional and other health care organizations to develop a national action plan addressing health disparities and mental retardation. (nih.gov)
  • Rural and urban patients differ in the mix of mental health providers, with rural enrollees relying more on primary care providers than urban enrollees. (nottingham.edu.cn)
  • Describes the program, the need for increased access to maternal and obstetric care in rural areas, and the program's strategic goals. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • The data was organized by treatment status and residence in large metro, metro, or rural areas. (mdnewsline.com)
  • These data show the importance of conducting research into subgroup analysis to uncover disparities that may be hidden otherwise. (mdnewsline.com)
  • You'll see a quote from Kristine Sande, who's at the Rural Health Information Hub, if you don't know what the situation is and if you don't have data to back it up, it's hard to make a case for why you need something, don't need something, or why a program or policy needs to change. (researchamerica.org)
  • There is a lack of data about what proportion of rural students are in pharmacy school and what the predictors of rural practice are. (researchamerica.org)
  • There is a lack of data around other health professionals, where they go, why they go, and how that contributes to rural health disparities. (researchamerica.org)
  • We used CY2005-2007 Minimum Data Set, Medicare beneficiary file, inpatient and hospice claims, Online Survey Certification and Reporting System and Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes. (confex.com)
  • Another challenge, when we look at the number of retail pharmacies, from 2003 to 2021, the number of those retail pharmacies decreased by almost 10%, but in more urban and metro areas retail pharmacies increased by 15% during that same time. (researchamerica.org)
  • Reports on the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) program 2019 cohort's first implementation year, 2020-2021. (ruralhealthinfo.org)
  • Of the rural patients, 21.9% were untreated, compared to 16.7% of those in large metra areas. (mdnewsline.com)
  • However, disparities exist across states, groups and along rural/ urban lines, as do large variations in the attainment of socio-economic indicators, and many sections of the population remain without access to basic serv- ices. (who.int)
  • Stark disparities exist in access to school and quality of education across the country. (com.pk)
  • Hence, while rural India where 70 percent of the country's population lives, depends on government-run CHC, PHCs and district hospitals which are ill equipped to cater to the healthcare needs of the rural hinterland. (altlipi.com)
  • But amidst of all these developments rural India is still underdeveloped. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Then the social and cultural difference is also creating a trouble in the development of rural India. (mapsofindia.com)
  • So there are several projects that are now underway in rural India for development. (mapsofindia.com)
  • We used this classification to analyze the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), which is uniquely capable of generating small area estimates of reported disabilities to document disparities at local administrative levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural hospitals may have difficulty remaining financially viable. (cdc.gov)
  • Effective asthma tools and programs developed by these organizations are now being implemented by CDC grantees-including large hospital systems, urban hospitals, city health departments, school systems, and local chapters of national asthma organizations. (cdc.gov)
  • According to a 2017 report from the US Government Accountability Office, only 10% of physicians choose to practice in a rural setting. (researchamerica.org)
  • Doing Family": Female Migrants and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam. (hslu.ch)
  • This paper considers youth bulges characterised by high proportions of rural‒urban migrants and examines their effects on the likelihood of social conflict in urban sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2013. (demographic-research.org)
  • The overall disassociation between young rural‒urban migrants and social conflict is encouraging. (demographic-research.org)
  • Further, 2 percent of Americans living in urban areas are without access to a buprenorphine provider, compared with 30 percent of rural residents. (air.org)
  • In the United States, residents in "rural" areas tend to have poorer health than those in more urbanized areas (1-3). (cdc.gov)
  • An interactive map contained in the report highlights how, for rural residents in particular, lengthy commutes to the nearest cardiologist could be prohibitive. (tctmd.com)
  • Here a major plan, based on demand-responsive, community-based approach, is being implemented in an attempt to extend rural coverage on a cost-effective basis. (practicalactionpublishing.com)
  • However, overall immunization coverage remains low with disparities throughout the country, particularly between rural and urban areas and secure and insecure zones. (who.int)
  • The epidemic has been compounded by the spread of the virus from sparsely populated rural areas to densely populated urban towns. (who.int)
  • The Census Bureau defines rural as any population that has less than 2,500 people. (researchamerica.org)
  • Patients who live in rural areas tend, on average, to have poor access to healthcare. (mdnewsline.com)