chapter one: defining rurality

Question 1

who is credited as the father of medicine?

Answer 1

hippocrates

Question 2

what are the five action areas for health promotion identified by the ottawa charter?

Answer 2

1) build healthy public policy, 2) create supportive environments, 3) strengthen community action, 4) develop personal skills, and 5) reorient health services

Question 3

true or false:
RUCA can identify the rural portions of metropolitan counties and the urban portions of nonmetropolitan counties

Answer 3

true

Question 4

what does the index of relative rurality (IRR) measure?

Answer 4

county’s degree of rurality based on size, density, remoteness, and built-up area

Question 5

what city was the first to establish a board of health?

Answer 5

philadelphia (1794)

Question 6

what was the emphasis (focus) of public health in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Answer 6

epidemic control

Question 7

hill-burton act

Answer 7

idea to build hospitals where they were needed and where they would be sustainable once their doors were open

Question 8

what has rural america been transformed by?

Answer 8

continued out-migration of increasingly educated young adults, in-migration of ethnic minorities, and growing numbers of retirees

Question 9

what are some of the challenges faced by rural america?

Answer 9

poverty, lack of access to care (limited number of healthcare practitioners), lack of health insurance, lack of access to public health infrastructures (having to travel long distances), ill equipped in responding to health disparities, systems are understaffed or employ staff with little formal public health training, hospital and clinic closures (leaves many without easy access to essential medical service), lack of public health capacities, historical racism and language, cultural or other barriers