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12 sie 2020 · Governmental public health in the rural United States has held a critical position, historically, as among a rural community’s most important providers of protective inspections, population-based health services, and safety-net clinical health care.
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. [1]
31 gru 2023 · 1990-1999. The 1990s were a decade of change for health policy in the United States. In 1990, OBRA 90 required Medicaid coverage of children aged 6-18 who were living under the poverty level. President Bill Clinton, upon assuming office in 1993, convened a White House Task Force on Health Reform, appointing First Lady Hillary Clinton as the chair.
14 kwi 2015 · Researchers have intimated for over 25 years that rural populations approach health in a distinct fashion that may differ from their non-rural counterparts. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to assess the extent and strength of evidence for rural definition of health.
17 cze 2022 · On June 4, 1987 the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Aging held a hearing entitled “The American Rural Health Care System: What Should It Be and How We Sustain It” – this created a new level of attention to rural health care issues.
What if definitions of rurality instead included both deficits and assets? Such a shift in thinking could go a long way toward addressing the multiple health disparities visible in rural...
The rural health care system in the U.S. has changed dramatically over the past two decades because of a transformation of health care financing, the introduction of new technologies, the clustering of health services into systems and networks, and the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which extended health insurance to previously uninsured ...
