What Is Rural Healthcare?
In medicine, rural health or rural medicine is the interdisciplinary study of health and health care delivery in rural environments. The concept of rural health incorporates many fields, including geography, midwifery, nursing, sociology, economics, and telehealth or telemedicine.
Research shows that the healthcare needs of individuals living in rural areas are different from those in urban areas, and rural areas often suffer from a lack of access to healthcare.
WHY RURAL HEALTHCARE?
- People in rural areas generally have less access to healthcare than their urban counterparts.
- 700 million people living in 636k villages.
- 66% of rural Indians don’t have access to critical medicine.
- 31% of the population travel more than 30 kms seeking health care in rural India.
- Not attractive enough for Private sector.
- Distributed population.
- Not enough money?
- Less efficient public sector.
- Incentives missing.
- Lack of skilled health workers on ground.
- Missing efficient distribution networks.
