Rural Health Services

"Rural Health Services" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.

Descriptor ID	D019035
MeSH Number(s)	N02.421.816
Concept/Terms	Rural Health Services Rural Health Services Health Services, Rural Health Service, Rural Rural Health Service Service, Rural Health Services, Rural Health Rural Health Center Rural Health Center Center, Rural Health Centers, Rural Health Health Center, Rural Health Centers, Rural Rural Health Centers

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Rural Health Services".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Rural Health Services [N02.421.816]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Rural Health Services".

Rural Health Services
Rural Nursing

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Bar chart showing 38 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2007 and 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	2	0	2
2005	1	0	1
2006	1	1	2
2007	5	0	5
2009	4	0	4
2010	1	0	1
2012	4	1	5
2013	2	0	2
2014	0	1	1
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	1	2
2018	2	1	3
2019	1	0	1
2020	1	0	1
2021	1	1	2
2023	0	1	1
2025	2	0	2

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BinAbdulBaten R, Islam S, Islam A, Hossain A. Does physician recruitment impact access and health of rural residents? Evidence from the 2014 recruitment of 6000 physicians in Bangladesh. Rural Remote Health. 2025 10; 25(4):9715.

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Griffin MM, Hernandez ND, Mehranian A, Wright DVR, Phillips K, Olanrewaju R, Franklin CG. Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis in Rural Georgia: Challenges, Disparities, and Pathways to Improvement. Am Surg. 2025 May; 91(5):732-736.

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Karmarkar AM, Roy I, Lane T, Shaibi S, Baldwin JA, Kumar A. Home health services for minorities in urban and rural areas with Alzheimer's and related dementia. Home Health Care Serv Q. 2023 10 02; 42(4):265-281.

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Rivera-Hernandez M, Ferdows NB, Kumar A. The Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas in Mexico. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 08 13; 76(7):e268-e274.

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Terregino CA, Byerley J, Henderson DD, Friedman E, Elks ML, Kirstein IJ, Leep-Hunderfund AN, Fancher TL. Cultivating the physician workforce: Recruiting, training, and retaining physicians to meet the needs of the population. Med Teach. 2021 07; 43(sup2):S39-S48.

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Eaves ER, Williamson HJ, Sanderson KC, Elwell K, Trotter RT, Baldwin JA. Integrating Behavioral and Primary Health Care in Rural Clinics: What Does Culture Have to Do with It? J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2020; 31(1):201-217.

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Wen X, Zheng H, Feng Z, Tucker W, Lu Y, Yuan Z. Hospitalization Services Utilization Between Permanent and Migrant Females in Underdeveloped Rural Regions and Contributing Factors-A Five-Time Data Collection and Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 09 14; 16(18).

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Endrizal CL, Fialkowski MK, Davis J, Yuan S, Novotny R, Delormier TWI, Rodriguez B. Dietetics Practice in the Unique, Culturally Diverse Pacific Island Region. Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2018 06; 77(6):135-143.

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Pinder LF, Nzayisenga JB, Shibemba A, Kusweje V, Chiboola H, Amuyunzu-Nyamongo M, Kapambwe S, Mwaba C, Lermontov P, Mumba C, Henry-Tillman R, Parham GP. Demonstration of an algorithm to overcome health system-related barriers to timely diagnosis of breast diseases in rural Zambia. PLoS One. 2018; 13(5):e0196985.

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Gbadamosi SO, Eze C, Olawepo JO, Iwelunmor J, Sarpong DF, Ogidi AG, Patel D, Oko JO, Onoka C, Ezeanolue EE. A Patient-Held Smartcard With a Unique Identifier and an mHealth Platform to Improve the Availability of Prenatal Test Results in Rural Nigeria: Demonstration Study. J Med Internet Res. 2018 01 15; 20(1):e18.

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