The need for proper medical care for rural

There is a shortage of people in the health professions in rural areas in the United States. Although 25 percent of the population lives in the country, only 10 percent of the physicians practice.

Doctors, and many independent experts, depending on appropriate population for their practices profitable. Moreover, the smaller the number of those who live in the country is less likely to seek medical attention. People in the medical profession are less likely to want their families to the countryside because there is less work and training opportunities for their families.
However, the new programs, under the auspices of the National Rural Health Association encourages individuals in the medical profession to work in that country. When the baby boomers reach retirement age, the health needs of older people, and this applies both in urban and rural areas.

People in the medical profession in rural areas to the specific conditions, poor health and other factors to address. People who live in a country as poor health habits. They are more likely to cigarettes, alcohol and drug abuse, cold smoke, and they are more prone to obesity. In the study, 40 percent of the nationwide class of 12 say they drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol, compared with 25 percent of adults in high school. Suicide rural Americans, particularly men, are also higher.

Rural Americans

Adolescents (ages 12-17) who smoke: 19%
Male deaths per 100,000 (age 1-24): 80
Male deaths per 100,000 (from 24.01): 40
Urban Americans

Adolescents (ages 12-17) who smoke: 11%
Male deaths per 100,000 (age 1-24): 60
Male deaths per 100,000 (age 1-24): 30
Rural Americans do not seek routine health care because they are more likely to be poor and have limited access to health insurance.

Rural Americans

Average annual income: $ 19,000
Population below poverty line: 14%
Population by private insurance: 64%
The cost of health care per capita than the U.S. average: 85%
Medicare beneficiaries without drug coverage: 45%
Urban Americans

Average annual income: $ 26,000
Population below poverty line: 11%
Population by private insurance: 69%
The cost of health care per capita than the U.S. average: 106%
Medicare beneficiaries without drug coverage: 31%
Rural Americans are more likely to cause serious injury or death experience a disaster. Approximately one third of the accidents at home, but two thirds of the deaths associated with such accidents. And all accidents in the country, 60 percent resulted in death or serious injury, compared with only 48% of the city. That's because people who live in rural areas are geographically dispersed, resulting in time EMT are considerably lower than in the city.

In the past, people in the medical profession are encouraged to work in the city, country, folk, mostly solved. But today, thanks to the efforts of the National Rural Health Association and their state counterparts, has done much for the quality of health care in rural areas to address. Modern medical facilities are built, and people in various health professions were accepted for a wide range of public health work.