| Health problems in rural communities are discussed regarding both the newly developing areas and the developed nations. Health problems in the former arise from malnutrition (which in turn arises as a result of scarce resources), parasitism (the solution for which is environmental sanitation and immunization), accidents, the expectations of the rural population, and the existing system that the society has developed for contending with disease and illness, i.e. traditional medicine. Rural health problems in the developed regions differ in that they relate to bringing high quality medical care to the rural dweller or bringing the rural dweller to the medical care. The USA is discussed as an example. |