Health outcomes
“Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve healthcare. Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve respect.”
― T.R. Graves
The effects of the lack of healthcare services in these areas for an individual may mean they will have a lower quality of life, or in some cases be deprived of their life altogether.
Heart disease "[f]or adults 20 years and older, patterns of coronary heart disease for men and women were highest in the nation’s most rural counties”
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Lower health outcomesRural residents experience a higher premature mortality rate, infant mortality rate, and age-adjusted death rate than urban and suburban residents. Rural adults are also more likely to report poor health status, obesity and limitations in activity than urban residents. (Rural Health Research Center, 2008).
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Mental health careMental healthcare is virtually nonexistant in rural areas.
"They come from as far as 50 miles away,"Oftentimes, clients don't have transportation back home, and, occasionally, they end up spending the night in our waiting room." |