Community health services at rural area

Although the promotion of community health programs — such as:

Rural communities throughout the United States lack access to health care.
While only 14 percent of Americans—almost 46 million people—live in rural areas, rural communities represent nearly two-thirds of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in the country. 1 This amounts to more than 4,100 primary care HPSAs in rural areas.

Likewise, rural human services providers may find that working with healthcare providers is an effective way to identify unaddressed needs.
Connecting human services to healthcare can help make limited resources go further and leverage the close-knit nature of rural communities.

CHWs in rural areas work to improve healthcare outcomes by facilitating healthcare access, adding value to the healthcare team, and enriching the quality of life for their patients and clients, including:

Although the promotion of community health programs — such as healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, and preventative care services, among others — doesn’t eliminate health disparities in rural communities, it does help individuals understand how to access programs and services designed to improve their personal health

Different innovative approaches have been practiced in different parts of the world to improve access to essential healthcare services in rural communities

Systematically collecting and combining best experiences all over the world is important to suggest effective strategies to improve access to healthcare in developing countries

In Australia, community participation in rural areas is described as an important strategy to build self reliant and self determined communities, and in health policy terms, is viewed as central in developing locally, responsive healthcare that is based on rigorous population health needs assessment [ 10, 31 ]