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Rural Populations

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Rural populations are diverse, but some generalizations can be made (U.S. Congress 2002; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 2005). With few exceptions, there are proportionally more poor people in rural areas than in urban areas. Rural people are three times more likely to live in substandard housing than people who live in more urbanized areas. People in rural areas have poorer physical health. Rural residents have a lower median educational attainment and are less likely to be in white-collar occupations (US Department of Health and Human Services 2005). More than 25% of rural workers earn less than the federal poverty rate. Often they have no health insurance.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Elizabeth Place East Medical Plaza, 627 Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, Dayton, OH, 45417-1461, USA

    Paulette Marie Gillig MD, PhD

  2. Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, 627 S. Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, Dayton, OH, 45417-1461, USA

    Ann K. Morrison MD

  3. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

    Helene Silverblatt MD

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    Hunter L. McQuistion

  2. Center for Public Service Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Gillig, P.M., Morrison, A.K., Silverblatt, H. (2012). Rural Populations. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_40

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