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Chapter 24: Rural and Migrant HealthEconomic base is shifting - correct answer ✔✔Poverty in rural areas greater than in urban areas
Current census for persons living in rural areas estimates: - correct answer ✔✔More than 50% of the
nation's poor
The trends - correct answer ✔✔Becoming more ethically diverse
Rural residents - correct answer ✔✔Suffer a higher number of unintentional injuries
Metropolitan areas - correct answer ✔✔County with at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more
peoples
Micropolitan area - correct answer ✔✔area contains a cluster of 10,000-50,000 people
Outside Core-based statistical areas - correct answer ✔✔No care areas
US contribution to the World Health Organization "Health for All" program 10 year plan to accomplish -
correct answer ✔✔- health equality
- elimination disparities
- improvement of health of groups through social and physical environments to promote quality of life
- healthy development
- health behaviors across all life stages
Composition - correct answer ✔✔Collective health effects that result from a concentration of persons
with certain characteristics
-age
-education
, -income
-ethnicity
-health behaviors
Rural health leaders identified 10 priorities - correct answer ✔✔- top of list is access to and affordability
of care
Regional differences in persistent poverty - correct answer ✔✔Defined as being in poverty over the last
30 years
South poverty rate - correct answer ✔✔22%
West poverty rate - correct answer ✔✔16.2%
Northeast and Midwest poverty rate - correct answer ✔✔13%
Poverty rates among rural racial minorities - correct answer ✔✔2 to 3 times higher than for rural whites
Family composition - correct answer ✔✔female headed families have highest poverty rates (40%) than
single male headed families (21.2%)
Southern states - correct answer ✔✔Higher rates of obesity, smoke use and smokeless tobacco,
sedentary lifestyles
Rural west - correct answer ✔✔Higher rates of alcohol and smokeless tobacco use
Intentional injuries - correct answer ✔✔Most often firearm use
Unintentional injuries - correct answer ✔✔Leading cause of death in the United States
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