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Mukherjee, Suneeta. "Rural health services." Indian Journal of Pediatrics 58, no. 4 (July 1991): 407–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02750919.

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Perkins, David. "Integrating rural health services." Australian Journal of Rural Health 21, no. 6 (December 2013): 297–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12083.

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Purcell, Rachael, and Joe McGirr. "Rural health service managers' perspectives on preparing rural health services for climate change." Australian Journal of Rural Health 26, no. 1 (August 17, 2017): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12374.

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Kumar, Anant. "Mental health services in rural India: challenges and prospects." Health 03, no. 12 (2011): 757–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2011.312126.

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Chalifoux, Zona, Jane B. Neese, Kathleen C. Buckwalter, Eugene Litwak, and Ivo L. Abraham. "Mental health services for rural elderly: Innovative service strategies." Community Mental Health Journal 32, no. 5 (October 1996): 463–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02251046.

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Tobin, Margaret J. "Rural Psychiatric Services." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 30, no. 1 (February 1996): 114–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679609076079.

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Objective: The objective was to describe and evaluate a community mental health service developed during 1991–1992 in an attempt to meet the mental illness needs of an isolated rural community. The setting was the Grampians health region in Western Victoria: this region has an area of 45,000 square kilo-metres and a population of 182,000. Method: The method involved firstly describing the evolution of the service delivery model. This comprised a team of travelling psychiatrists and community psychiatric nurses which succeeded in providing a combined inpatient and outpatient service which was integrated with general practitioners. Secondly, diagnostic and case load descriptions of patients receiving service were compared for both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Results: The results were that reduced reliance on inpatient beds and increased consumer satisfaction were achieved. Conclusion: It was concluded that on initial evaluation of the service it was seen to be meeting its objective of treating the seriously mentally ill in an isolated rural community based setting.
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Rohrer, James E., Joyce E. Beaulieu, and David E. Berry. "Rural Health Services: A Management Perspective." Journal of Public Health Policy 16, no. 3 (1995): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3342870.

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Berry, David E., and John W. Seavey. "Assuring access to rural health services." Health Care Management Review 19, no. 2 (1994): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004010-199421000-00004.

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Mueller, Keith J. "Rural Health Services: A Management Perspective." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20, no. 4 (1995): 1081–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03616878-20-4-1081.

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Colon-Rivera, Hector, and Lisa B. Dixon. "Mental Health Services in Rural Areas." Psychiatric Services 71, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): 984–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.71903.

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Straub, LaVonne A. "Financing Rural Health and Medical Services." Journal of Rural Health 6, no. 4 (October 1990): 467–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.1990.tb00683.x.

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Duncan, R. Paul. "Education for Rural Health Services Administration." Journal of Rural Health 6, no. 4 (October 1990): 533–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.1990.tb00688.x.

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Farmer, Jane, and Dorothy Williams. "Research. Effective rural health information services." Health Libraries Review 17, no. 1 (March 2000): 59–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2532.2000.00265.x.

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Gross, Allison. "Innovative health services in rural America." Pharmacy Today 19, no. 6 (June 2013): 46–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1042-0991(15)31304-9.

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Costello, A. M. DeL, and G. Tudor-Williams. "Nepal IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES." Lancet 327, no. 8495 (June 1986): 1433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(86)91567-9.

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Alto, William A. "Emergency health services in rural vietnam." American Journal of Emergency Medicine 16, no. 4 (July 1998): 422–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0735-6757(98)90147-4.

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WALIA, DR INDERJIT. "HEALTH SERVICES AND RURAL PREGNANT MOTHERS." Nursing Journal of India LXXIX, no. 09 (1988): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.48029/nji.1988.lxxix903.

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Pong, RW, M. DesMeules, D. Heng, C. Lagacé, JR Guernsey, A. Kazanjian, D. Manuel, et al. "Patterns of Health Services Utilization in Rural Canada." Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada 31, supplement 1 (September 2011): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.31.s1.01.

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Canadians value ease of access to their health services. Although many studies have focused on accessibility to health services in Canada, few have examined rural-urban differences in this aspect, particularly from a national perspective. Yet disparities in access to health services exist between rural and urban populations, as do the challenges of delivering health care to more remote areas or to those with small populations. “Canada’s Rural Communities: Understanding Rural Health and Its Determinants” is a three-year research project co-funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It involves investigators from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR) at Laurentian University, and other researchers. The first publication of the research project was How Healthy Are Rural Canadians? An Assessment of Their Health Status and Health Determinants;Footnote 1a1a this, the second publication, is a descriptive analysis of the utilization patterns of a broad range of health services by rural residents compared to their urban counterparts.
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Banerjee, Abhijit, Angus Deaton, and Esther Duflo. "Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan." American Economic Review 94, no. 2 (April 1, 2004): 326–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/0002828041301902.

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White, Lucy Brigid. "Dental services in rural Ireland:-Potential for health service integration." International Journal of Integrated Care 18, s1 (March 12, 2018): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.s1155.

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Dr. P. Subramanyachary, Dr P. Subramanyachary. "104 and 108 Services- A Boom to Rural Health in Andhra Pradesh." International Journal of Scientific Research 2, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 231–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778179/feb2013/77.

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Roeder, Kevin R. "Rural HIV/AIDS Services." Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services 1, no. 2 (March 2002): 21–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j187v01n02_03.

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Davis, Siena F., Hannah E. Payne, Cassidy A. Hine, Bobbi L. Gray, and Benjamin T. Crookston. "Factors Associated with Accessing ICDS Services among Women in Rural Rajasthan, India." Health 10, no. 10 (2018): 1271–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2018.1010098.

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Qadeer, Imrana. "The challenge of building rural health services." Indian Journal of Medical Research 134, no. 5 (2011): 591. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5916.90982.

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Dhungel, Basundhara, and Hiran D. Dias. "Planning for Rural Health Services in Nepal." Third World Planning Review 10, no. 3 (August 1988): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/twpr.10.3.jm47x35846504672.

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Hicks, Lanis L., and Kenneth D. Bopp. "Integrated pathways for managing rural health services." Health Care Management Review 21, no. 1 (1996): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004010-199602110-00007.

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Hicks, Lanis L., and Kenneth D. Bopp. "Integrated pathways for managing rural health services." Health Care Management Review 21, no. 1 (1996): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004010-199624000-00007.

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Docherty, Alison. "Accessing sexual health services in rural Scotland." British Journal of School Nursing 5, no. 2 (March 12, 2010): 78–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjsn.2010.5.2.47143.

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Mueller, Keith J. "Rural Health Services Research: Past, Present, Future." Journal of Rural Health 18, no. 5 (January 2002): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.2002.tb00925.x.

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Nelson, Julie A., and Barbara Stover Gingerich. "Rural Health: Access to Care and Services." Home Health Care Management & Practice 22, no. 5 (February 26, 2010): 339–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1084822309353552.

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Hoffmaster, Joan E. "Rural Maternity Services: Community Health Nurse Providers." Journal of Community Health Nursing 3, no. 1 (March 1986): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327655jchn0301_4.

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Pomeranz, William, and Steven Rosenberg. "Developing Home Health Services in Rural Communities—." Home Health Care Services Quarterly 6, no. 4 (May 15, 1986): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j027v06n04_02.

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Patrick, Donald L., Jane Stein, Miquel Porta, Carol Q. Porter, and Thomas C. Ricketts. "Poverty, Health Services, and Health Status in Rural America." Milbank Quarterly 66, no. 1 (1988): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3349987.

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Kise Hjertstrøm, Helle, Aud Obstfelder, and Bente Norbye. "Making New Health Services Work: Nurse Leaders as Facilitators of Service Development in Rural Emergency Services." Healthcare 6, no. 4 (October 27, 2018): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare6040128.

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Nurse leaders in middle management positions in Norway and other Western countries perform additional new tasks due to high demands for quality and efficacy in healthcare services. These nurses are increasingly becoming responsible for service development and innovation in addition to their traditional leadership and management roles. This article analyses two Norwegian nurse leaders efforts in developing an emergency service in rural municipal healthcare. The analysis applies an ethnographic approach to the data collection by combining interviews with the nurse leaders with observations and interviews with six nurses in the emergency service. The primary theoretical concepts used to support the analysis include “organizing work” and “articulation work”. The results show that in the development of an existing emergency room service, the nurse leaders drew upon their experience as clinical nurses and leaders in various middle management positions in rural community healthcare. Due to their local knowledge and experience, the nurses were able to mobilize and facilitate cooperation among relevant actors in the community and negotiate for resources required for emergency medical equipment, professional development, and staffing to perform emergency care within the rural healthcare context. Due to their distinctive professional and organizational competency and experience, the nurse leaders were well equipped to play a key role in developing services. While mobilizing actors and negotiating for resources, the nurses creatively balanced these two aspects of nursing work to develop the service in accordance to their expectation of providing the highest quality of nursing care to their patients. The nurse leaders balanced their professional ambitions for the service with legal directives, economic incentives, and budgets. Throughout the development process, the nurses carefully combined value-based and goal-based management concerns. In contrast, other studies investigating nursing management and leadership have described that these orientations are in opposition to each other. This study shows that nurses leading the processes of change in rural communities manage the change process by combining the professional and organizational domains of the services.
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Matsea, Thabisa, Elma Ryke, and Mike Weyers. "Assessing mental health services in a rural setting: Service providers’ perspective." International Journal of Mental Health 47, no. 1 (October 13, 2017): 26–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2017.1377805.

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Ricketts, Thomas C. "Rural Health Research and Rural Health in the 21st Century: The Future of Rural Health and the Future of Rural Health Services Research." Journal of Rural Health 18, no. 5 (January 2002): 140–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.2002.tb00926.x.

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Farmer, Jane, Hilary Davis, Irene Blackberry, and Tracy de Cotta. "Assessing the value of rural community health services." Australian Journal of Primary Health 24, no. 3 (2018): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py17125.

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Rural health services are challenging to manage, a situation perhaps exacerbated by necessity to comply with one-size-fits-all performance frameworks designed for larger services. This raises the questions: do we know what rural health services are doing that is valuable and how should that be evaluated? Twenty-eight qualitative interviews with CEOs and staff of seven Victorian rural health services were conducted, exploring what they value about their ‘best practice’. Themes emergent from analysis were compared with 19 government-produced health planning and performance documents. It was found that most dimensions of rural services value aligned with current performance frameworks, but a significant theme about ‘community’ was missing. Highlighting the relevance of this theme, achieving community-oriented goals accounted for one-third of best practice case studies identified by health services personnel. It is concluded that generating community outcomes is a significant area of value aimed for by rural health services that is missing from current performance measurement frameworks applied to Victorian health services. In this study, a new Evaluative Framework is outlined and further steps needed are suggested.
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Poulin, Laura, and Neil Hanlon. "LEVERAGING CRITICAL RURAL GERONTOLOGY TO IMPROVE RURAL GERONTOLOGICAL HEALTH." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1477.

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Abstract A critical approach in rural gerontology has led to a better understanding of the complex interplay between older adults unique aging experiences and the multidimensional and dynamic communities in which they live. The evolution of critical rural gerontology will be explored, outlining why a similar approach is needed in rural gerontological health. In particular, rural gerontological health literature must expand beyond a deficit focus that homogenizes older adult health experiences and recognize the complexities of negotiating older adult health within multidimensional rural spaces. Inherent in this approach is recognizing the intersectionality of older adult health as well as the need to study rural gerontological health as an experience enhanced and inhibited by interactions within and across formal health services, informal social services and informal care. This approach will contribute to innovations in policy and practice addressing the burgeoning interest of how to effectively care for older adults in rural settings.
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Humphreys, John S., John Wakerman, and Robert Wells. "What do we mean by sustainable rural health services? Implications for rural health research." Australian Journal of Rural Health 14, no. 1 (February 2006): 33–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1584.2006.00750.x.

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Chen, Xueyan, Tao Zhou, and Di Wang. "The Impact of Multidimensional Health Levels on Rural Poverty: Evidence from Rural China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 7 (March 29, 2022): 4065. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074065.

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Poor health and poverty interact and restrict each other. While this relationship is acknowledged, little is known about the extent of its impact. By integrating multisource data, this study used spatial econometric models to quantitatively reveal the relationship between health and rural poverty and explore its intrinsic mechanisms. The results indicated that health-care system input, individual health status, and individual health-seeking behavior have a significantly positive effect on the eradication of rural poverty. The health-care system input is characterized by spatial spillover, significantly contributing to rural poverty alleviation in the region and neighboring regions, as well. However, the effect of health-care system services’ capability was negative. Thus, it is necessary to increase investment in the health-care system and pay attention to both the health status and healthy behaviors of rural residents. Moreover, further effort should be given to the supply-side reform of health services as a breakthrough point.
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Nicholson, Laura Anne. "Rural mental health." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 14, no. 4 (July 2008): 302–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.107.005009.

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A significant proportion of people live and work in rural areas, and rural mental health is important wherever psychiatry is practised. There are inherent difficulties in conducting rural research, due in part to the lack of an agreed definition of rurality. Mental health is probably better in rural areas, with the exception of suicide, which remains highest in male rural residents. A number of aspects of rural life (such as the rural community, social networks, problems with access, and social exclusion) may all have particular implications for people with mental health problems. Further issues such as the effect of rural culture on help-seeking for mental illness, anonymity in small rural communities and stigma may further affect the recognition, treatment and maintenance of mental health problems for people in rural areas. Providing mental health services to remote and rural locations may be challenging.
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Morrisey, Michael A., Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Victoria Johnson, and Richard Treat. "Rural Emergency Medical Services: Patients, Destinations, Times, and Services." Journal of Rural Health 11, no. 4 (September 1995): 286–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.1995.tb00426.x.

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Nisha, Nabila, Mehree Iqbal, Afrin Rifat, and Sherina Idrish. "Mobile Health Services." International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management 6, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijabim.2015010101.

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Today, information and communication technology (ICTs) are influencing health system development across many developing countries, particularly through the application of mobile communications. As such, there has been an initiation of a new paradigm of mobile health services which has made healthcare delivery more accessible, affordable and effective. However, such service delivery platform has been mainly targeted towards the rural population, so there is growing concerns about its acceptance and future use intentions in the urban areas. The aim of this paper is to examine and critically assess the underlying factors that can influence future use intentions of mHealth services in the context of Bangladesh. The conceptual model of the study identifies that information quality, facilitating conditions, trust and effort expectancy plays an important role in capturing users' overall perceptions of mobile health services. Finally, the study highlights the managerial implications, future research directions and limitations from the perspective of Bangladesh.
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Jo Wainer. "Rural Women's Health." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 3 (1998): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98033.

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Rural women in Australia have reduced access to health and illness-management services, live in more hazardous environments, and yet describe themselves as healthier than urban women. These contradictions illustrate some of the consequences of different ways of measuring health. Data based on presentations to hospital for episodes of illness management, within a conceptual framework of biomedicine which has been developed with little input from women, presents one picture of the health of a community. Data based on asking women what is going on provides another picture. These different pictures highlight the distinction between health and illness management. This article introduces the reader to rural culture, considers some of the epidemiological evidence about the presentation of illness and mortality for rural women, summarises the outcomes of research and consultations with women, and concludes by making recommendations about effective ways to enhance rural women's health through service delivery.
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Littleford, Angela, Debbie Martin, Lee Martinez, and Angela May. "Rural and Metropolitan Community Health: Celebrating the Strengths." Australian Journal of Primary Health 5, no. 3 (1999): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py99034.

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The paper outlines the strengths, similarities and differences of metropolitan and rural community health sectors. Case studies are used to look at the history of community health in South Australia, its current status is described and some future directions are proposed. Perspectives are drawn from the authors' collective experiences. Rural and metropolitan community health services in South Australia have developed from different models since they were established in the 1970s. Rural community health services have invariably been established as entities within hospitals and health services, although metropolitan community health services have generally been established as stand alone facilities independent of the acute sector. To illustrate this, two case studies are used to demonstrate the evolution of metropolitan and rural community health services.
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Shelton, Deborah A., Elizabeth Merwin, and Jeanne Fox. "Implications of health care reform for rural mental health services." Administration and Policy in Mental Health 23, no. 1 (September 1995): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02106862.

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Amin, Ruhul, Shifiq A. Chowdhury, G. M. Kamal, and J. Chowdhury. "Community health services and health care utilization in rural Bangladesh." Social Science & Medicine 29, no. 12 (January 1989): 1343–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(89)90234-7.

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Kumar, Anil. "National Institute of Rural Health for India: Need of the Hour." Epidemiology International 05, no. 04 (November 20, 2020): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2455.7048.202026.

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India being predominantly a rural country, striving hard to provide quality healthcare services to more than 890 million people who lives there. The importance given to rural health care by Govt. of India is visible through the implementation of dedicated submission under NHM, i.e., NRHM. However, there are still several rural health challenges, i.e., specific needs, belief/ superstition, scarcity of human resources in rural areas, lack of quality research/ coordination and collaboration between various sectors. The possible solutions to these challenges lie in strengthening research in rural health epidemiology, agricultural health, enhancing use of Information Technology & Telemedicine, designing specific clinical services, field practices, applying the biostatistics & mathematical modelling in decision making and mentoring the human resources in specific need of rural health. This article is an attempt to elucidate various rural health challenges and need for development of National Institute of Rural Health in India, to address the challenges of rural health and conduct before mentioned activities as an apex body.
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Chater, Alan B. "Looking after health care in the bush." Australian Health Review 32, no. 2 (2008): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080313.

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LOOKING AFTER health care in rural Australia involves providing adequate services to meet the urgent and non-urgent needs of rural patients in a timely, cost-effective and safe manner. The very provision of these services requires an appropriate workforce and facilities in rural areas. This provides challenges for clinicians, administrators and medical educators. While preventive medicine has made some significant gains globally in reducing the need for acute care and hospitalisation in some areas of medicine such as infectious disease and asthma, these demands have been replaced by an increase in trauma, chronic disease and mental illness1 which, with an ageing population, eventually means presentations at an older age which can require hospitalisation. Rural patients have always had to deal with a relative undersupply of health practitioners. Rural people have coped valiantly with this. The legendary stoicism of rural people has been shown by Schrapnel2 and Davies to be a prominent feature of the rural personality. This both allowed them to cope with lack of services and to suffer in silence while their health status fell below the Australian average.3 Rural Australians use fewer Medicare services and see the doctor less per annum than the Australian average.
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Rohland, Barbara M., and Douglas R. Langbehn. "Use of Mental Health Services in Rural Areas." Psychiatric Services 49, no. 1 (January 1998): 107—a—108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.1.107-a.

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