When it comes to the availability of healthy or unhealthy food options, the divide between rural and urban areas is just an illusion – as the country is a continuum of how far people live from access to food. A recent study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that only 0.2% …
Although junk food is more accessible to rural people, they have a healthier diet Read More »
The American Medical Association says the country could be short of 35,000 to 125,000 doctors, hitting rural areas especially hard. ST. CLOUD, Minnesota — When it comes to health care in rural communities, in some cases people have to wait months just to get things like physical exams, while some have to travel miles to …
CentraCare and U of M share plans to attract more doctors to rural communities Read More »
ST. CLOUD – The University of Minnesota and central Minnesota’s largest healthcare provider are teaming up to open the state’s first new medical school in 50 years. The school would be in St. Cloud and focus on rural health, similar to the U’s Duluth campus which opened in 1972 with a focus on rural and …
Ryan Henry Gundersen Health System On Monroe County’s rural roads, usually reserved for Amish tractors, pickup trucks, and buggies, an out-of-place, yet welcome, vehicle roams the hills. It enters the gravel alleys of pre-screened farms, opens its doors and invites laborers – usually migrant workers from Central America – to enter if they suffer from …
Gundersen’s mobile medicine team brings health care to the rural population Read More »
A volunteer medical team, consisting of a university professor of medicine and his postgraduate students, tested the blood oxygen saturation level of a rural resident in Chenzhou, Hunan province last week . They have also delivered health kits to those living in remote areas. [Photo by Cao Zhengping/For China Daily] Local governments must ensure that …
The directive urges an adequate supply of medicines in rural areas Read More »
LawFlash January 11, 2023 At its January 26 public meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider an order and notice of proposed new rulemaking (FNPRM) to change rules for the Rural Health Care Program, which includes the Healthcare Program. Connect Fund (HCF) and the Telecommunications Program (telecom). The most significant change in the final …
FCC plans to change rules for rural health care program and initiate new rules Read More »
SMITHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) – After months of searching for resources in their county, a family in Smithville, Tennessee, said their adopted daughters got the mental health resources they needed through the Youth Village Intercept Program that sent a counselor to their home for three days. one week. The service is not just for adoptive children, …
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — As lawmakers prepare to return to the Texas Capitol this month, many rural communities are hoping the legislature will make significant investments in their mental health resources. Potter County Judge Nancy Tanner handles mental health cases not only in her Amarillo County seat, but in more than two dozen rural counties around …
Texas rural mental health advocates call for change in 2023 Read More »
A storm is looming on the horizon for farmers as they battle a host of rising costs. Picture/file Rising fuel and fertilizer costs and debt service levels have shaken rural confidence and sparked fears over mental well-being, with farmers facing hard times told to “talk to someone “. Industry representatives say farmers are tightening their …
‘Tell someone’: Farmers’ confidence shaken as costs rise Read More »
A medical worker performs acupuncture to treat a patient during a free medical camp in Madaripur, Bangladesh, Dec. 23, 2022. (Xinhua) “Ordinary people in Madaripur are receiving this treatment. I believe that through this treatment, our helpless ordinary people who are suffering from various diseases will get relief. I hope they will live a healthy …
Traditional Chinese medicine reaches rural Bangladesh with benefactors Read More »
