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Rural Population

"Rural Population" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rural Population" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rural Population" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Rural Population" by people in Profiles.
  1. An Exploration of Access to Tobacco Cessation Services Through Pharmacies in a Medically Underserved Area in California: Accuracy of Telephone Information Regarding Pharmacist-Furnished NRT. J Prim Care Community Health. 2025; 16:21501319251403072.
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  2. Colorectal Cancer Screening Modalities in the United States: Regional and Rural Variance, the Resilience of Colonoscopy, and the Rise of mt-sDNA Testing. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2025 Dec 02; 18(12):745-755.
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  3. Rural-urban disparity in induced abortion in Ghana: A multivariate non-linear decomposition analysis of the Ghana Maternal Health Survey. PLoS One. 2025; 20(10):e0334024.
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  4. Utilization of home- and community-based services among rural family caregivers of persons with dementia: the role of the area deprivation index. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1688161.
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  5. Improving Contraception Outreach through Human-Centered Design: A Pilot Study of the Ndingathe ("I Can") Intervention in Rural Malawi. PLoS One. 2025; 20(9):e0332149.
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  6. Incidence of Pediatric Graves' Disease in the United States: An Epidemiological Analysis of 2007-2022 Outpatient Insurance Claims. Thyroid. 2025 Nov; 35(11):1345-1349.
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  7. County-level socioeconomic status, rurality, and second primary cancer risk among breast cancer survivors in the United States. Cancer Causes Control. 2025 Dec; 36(12):1813-1824.
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  8. Evaluating the impact of altitudinal variations on COVID-19 mortality rates: a comprehensive analysis. BMC Pulm Med. 2025 Aug 30; 25(1):413.
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  9. Video and Telephone Telehealth Use and Web-Based Patient Portal Activation Among Rural-Dwelling Patients: Retrospective Medical Record Review and Policy Implications. J Med Internet Res. 2025 Aug 29; 27:e67226.
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  10. Occupations at high risk for malaria in Zanzibar: a case-control study, may-august 2023. Malar J. 2025 Aug 20; 24(1):268.
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