Tele-ICUs put rural Georgia on the mapWith the highest mortality rate in healthcare and costing hospitals an estimated $180 billion each year, intensive care units (ICUs) are established regulars in the health IT reform spotlight.Healthcare IT News...
Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from ...
Definition: Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country ...
There is more to come on this work along with RCAP’s collaboration with the U of I to map un/underserved communities in several states served by private wells and/or septic systems with the goal of identifying areas where there may be risk for environmental and public health exposure to ...
and they are generally older in age and more likely to be in poorer health compared with people living in more urban areas. rural residents can face less access to health care services and have to travel greater distances to receive care when a facility closes . prior research indicates ...
Univariate analysis showed that in group of patients living in rural areas treated with rt-PA AF, prior stroke and TIA, anticoagulant therapy before stroke, ischemic changes and COED in control CT, large vessel disease and SICH, higher median NIHSS, MAP, SBP (systolic blood pressure), lower ...
Future studies in rural areas may also benefit from conducting additional formative research prior to initiating RDS recruitment to better determine whether the underlying population is networked. If distinct subgroups exist, RDS may not be the most appropriate recruitment strategy....
Interventions for improving attraction and retention of health workers in rural and underserved areas: a systematic review of systematic reviews. J Public Health (Oxf). 2021;43(suppl 1):i54-i66. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdaa235PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 5. American Hospital Association. Rural ...
Access to mental health care is also a major problem, said Dr. Zita Magloire, a family physician in Cairo, a city in southern Georgia with about 10,000 residents. “It’s almost nonexistent here.” A map created at Georgia Tech showswide swaths of rural counties without access to autism...
Blood pressure increased with age in rural, semi-urban and urban areas, and in both boys and girls. Blood pressure levels were lower in the rural population than in the semi-urban and urban populations. Locality and BMI were independently associated with blood pressure in both boys and girls....