NURS 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Prenatal Care, Cardiovascular Disease, Pediatrics
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It is a shared residential preference for small-town life but a compromise between small town and highly populated cities. Population characteristics and cultural considerations for rural populations. Health status of rural residents: generally have a poorer perception of their overall health and functional status, less likely to engage in preventive behavior, more likely to have one or more of the following chronic conditions: heart disease, Copd, hypertension, arthritis and rheumatism, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: tend to have poorer health and less likely to seek medical care, traveling time and/or distance to ambulatory care services affects access to care, other issues. Issues in migrant health: lack of knowledge about services. Inability to afford care: availability of services, transportation, hours of service, mobility and tracking, language barriers, discrimination, documentation, cultural aspects, children of migrant workers, dental disease, depression, anxiety-related disorders, domestic violence, children of migrant workers. They often take over the roles of the physicians.
