RT Book, Section
A1 Probst, Janice C.
A1 Eberth, Jan M.
A1 Crouch, Elizabeth
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182684553
T1 Rural America: Public Health Challenges and Opportunities
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182684553
RD 2024/04/20
AB Rural  America  is  home  to  approximately  60  million  persons,  or  about  20%  of  the  nation’s  population.1  This  population  is  widely  distributed,  with  the  U.S.  Census  Bureau  estimating  that  97%  of  the  U.S.  landmass  is  rural.  The  rural  economy  is  critical  to  the  nation.  Farm  products  alone  account  for  about  1%  of  gross  domestic  product  and  1.4%  of  national  employment,  without  considering  the  effects  of  food  processing  or  other  rural  industries  (2015  data).2  Culturally  and  environmentally,  rural  America  is  both  broad  and  diverse,  with  settlement  patterns  ranging  from  the  dense  farms  and  small  towns  of  the  South  and  Midwest  to  the  far-flung  ranches  and  forested  areas  of  the  West,  and  cultures  ranging  from  Appalachia  through  communities  at  the  Mexican–American  border.  Devising  public  health  strategies  across  this  broad  sector  of  the  country  is  complex  and  requires  both  detailed  local  knowledge  and  national  policies  that  are  sensitive  to  rural  differences.