Health Care Of Rural Villages

Growing up on a farm in rural South Dakota, one learns to go without. Country living often entails going without the newest clothes, technology, or even modern necessities. Unfortunately, it can also include the postponement of medical intervention when health begins to fail. The impact rural health clinics have on alleviating this maldistribution is immense.

Traditionally, it is custom that patients to travel to the provider. Although it is possible to create an establishment for patients to visit providers, Mullin & Stenger (2013), advise patients choose home care in which the provider travels to them. According to Buchan, Couper, Tangcharoensathien, Thepannya, Jaskiewicz, Perfilieva, & Dolea (2013), the World Health Organization provides favorable recommendations to procure health care professionals into the rural environment. These recommendations include providing further education opportunities, improved living conditions, career development programs, incentives such as public recognition, and a safe and supportive work environment. Another essential recommendation is to implement jobs for multiple scopes of practices and varieties of health care workers. It is important that health care providers have the support of a multidisciplinary work staff to implement safe and efficient

In the United States for decades the cost of health care has been on the rise and will continue to rise. Healthcare is a major concern for every country in the world. Access to healthcare service is critical for rural residents. Most importantly, residents should be able to have convenient access to medical care such as primary care, dental, behavioral health, emergency, and public health service. According to Health People 2020, access to healthcare is important for overall physical, social, and mental health status, prevention of disease, detection and treatment of illnesses, quality of life, preventable death, and life expectancy. Rural residents often experience obstacles to healthcare that limit their ability to receive the care they need. In order for rural residents to have sufficient healthcare access, necessary and appropriate services must be available.

Rural Americans face the struggle of accessing healthcare, both preventative services and also specialty care, here in America. What is the cause most often? Distance. According to a study conducted by Buzza et al (2011), those surveyed believed that distance was perhaps the most important reason for lack of access to healthcare on a variety of the spectrum to include: routine healthcare, emergency care, specialty care, and in some cases diagnostic services. What the study found was that among other things, improved means of getting to said services would in turn, improve access to healthcare services for rural Americans.

The North Eastern Local Health Integration Network is responsible for integration amongst different health care establishments and providers within towns such as Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay and a few more. These towns are relatively rural communities and an reoccurring issue in rural communities is not having the same opportunities as those living in urban communities or in the city. Living in rural communities, limits the access that residents have to the care they need because of a lack of these care facilities and providers and it also limits the quality of care that these residents can receive because of a lack of resources and specialists. Unlike in Toronto and surrounding towns, many people have access to primary care, specialists, rehabilitation and more. North eastern LHIN and supporting organizations such as Health Science North and Rural Health pub work to implement integration initiatives to help increase the access to quality health care services to residents of rural communities in northeastern Ontario. One of the programs

Much of the research is not specific to the rural setting in the United States, but all inclusive of populations in all areas, urban, suburban and rural. So how do we, as Care Managers meet the needs of the rural population, improve overall health and reduce hospital readmissions?

Rural health professionals represent a diverse set of individuals seeking to meet the main goals of public health. Their desire to promote health and prevent disease is blocked by many barriers, due to the geographical position of their target population; yet they still persevere to serve their specified communities. Approximately twenty percent of America is rural, and rural counties are more likely to report fair to poor health. This particular population cannot be compared to its urban counterparts due the sheer amount of obstacles health care providers and patients face. Rural Americans are shaped by geography and tradition which creates a combination of factors that create disparities.

Accessing health care services can be very challenging for rural residents. Sometimes, they must traveling long distances to seek critical care. Because rural hospitals are usually the sole source for patient care, they are better positioned to offer additional health care services. Critical Access Hospitals are required to improve care for rural patients by improving access to urgent care services and meeting previously unmet community health needs. They are expected to

The absence of adequate training sites in the rural areas is also an aspect contributing to the lack of enough health care professionals. With training facilities widely concentrated in the urban areas, most health care professionals opt to work in the metropolitan areas (Burrows et al., 2012). According to Jukkala, Greenwood, Ladner, and Hopkins (2010), there is a decline in the number of health care practitioners in the rural counties of the U.S. because such areas do not have the necessary resources to attract a large pool of medical professionals.

Rural Americans face an exclusive combination of issues that create disparities in health care that are not found in urban areas. Many complications met by healthcare providers and patients in rural arears are massively different than those located in urban areas. Financial factors, cultural and social variances, educational deficiencies, lack of acknowledgement by delegates and the absolute isolation of living in remote rural areas all combined to hinder rural Americans in their struggle to lead a normal, healthy life. Rural hospitals located in rural areas faces many disadvantages, such as; minimum resources, shortcoming or unprepared professionals, and financial disparities. Although many of these challenges could be solved

Rural residents need access to healthcare. These residents should have the ability to receive primary care in a convenient setting and do it confidently. “According to healthy People 2020, access to healthcare is

With the advancements in agriculture such as, the irrigation system and domesticated animals, populations increases leading the way to village life. In the village life, a small community works together in effort to maintain life with a simple structure to

Health System has been developed; the most basic unit is a Sub-Health Post or Health Post in each Village Development Committee area. However, the expansion of the Health System has not been matched by an expansion in the domestive resources, workers and supplies, and the available resources are not efficiently distributed. In

Today's life has many difficulties and people are the victims, so they plan to make it easy as they canother. So they can reach a good position. They have more friends in the community since it is small. The village people always try to protect their traditional habits and culture. The village has clean air and the environment is very beautiful. The village has less noise and rush. So the pollution is less. The village has not lot of vehicles. So roads are less dangerous for driving cycling. They can get fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. The environment of the village is pleasant and silent and it has scenic beauty. The village has not only good points, but also it has bad points.

Healthcare in Rural Areas Ro Ann Viloria Ju Hyun “Katie” Park Maui High School February 23, 2015 Table of Contents Abstract................................................................................................... 2 Introduction. ............................................................................................. 3 Transportation............................................................................................ 3-4 Emergency Medical Situations................................................................ 4