Public Health, Occupational Health and Epidemiology Conference

Rural healthcare pronounces itself as a system that deals with the specific needs of persons in rural areas as well as other unserved places. As the populations of the rural areas have low access to health facilities or healthcare- professionals, they are exposed to more health risk differences that consequently influence their health status. Efforts to enhance rural health include advancing policies that help to close these disparities and thereby increase access to healthy public policies and healthcare services.

The lack of doctors and other healthcare specialists is a well-known problem in rural healthcare markets in many countries. Since there is limited access to health centers in rural areas and as such few facilities, patients in such areas may have to be transported long distances for normal checkups and emergencies. Mobile clinics and new rural CHCs as a prescription for bringing primary care to these populations is a very concrete and feasible approach.

One of the best examples of a growing telecommunication technology solution that is giving significant results in rural centers is telemedicine. Also, by using telemedicine it is possible for clients in remote areas of a country to see the specialist’s incognito. This not only increases the access but the existing limitations which include the cost of transporting and time. Televised medical services might not fully improve the picture of health care delivery if internet connection and usage remain a preserve of the developed world thus the need to enhance the exchange of information through global connectivity.

Regular checkups and health awareness form the key strands of rural health services. Rural health care services, in terms of public health education initiatives, are aimed at.

Activities like exercise and nutrition changes, immunization, and control of communicable diseases. They act as easily approachable knowledge-based assets that are in touch with the issues and limitations of the targeted community.