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In medicine, rural health or rural medicine is the interdisciplinary study of health and health care delivery in rural environments. The concept of rural health incorporates many fields, including wilderness medicine, geography, midwifery, nursing, sociology, economics, and telehealth or telemedicine.On average, people who live in rural areas have different health care needs than people in urban or suburban areas, and rural areas often suffer from a lack of access to care. There are differences in demography, geography, individual healthy behaviors, population density, socioeconomics, and the work force. For example, many rural communities have different age distributions Specifically, they have higher dependency ratios, with a higher percent of residents either too young or too old to work. People living in rural areas also tend to have less education, lower socioeconomic status, higher rates of alcohol and tobacco use, and higher mortality rates when compared to their urban counterparts. In many regions of the world, there is a higher rate of poverty among rural dwellers, and poverty is one of the biggest social determinants of health.
Many countries have made it a priority to increase funding for research on rural health. These efforts have led to the development of several research institutes with rural health mandates, including the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research in Canada, Countryside Agency in the United Kingdom, the Institute of Rural Health in Australia, and the New Zealand Institute of Rural Health. These research efforts are designed to help identify the healthcare needs of rural communities and provide policy solutions to ensure those needs are met. The concept of incorporating the needs of rural communities into government services is sometimes referred to as rural proofing.

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